I work in a dept of 50 people, and their computers get replaced often,
and sometimes they are logged into "community" workstations.
I would like to know if a script can be written based on a list of
known NT user IDs, to return a list of computers these users are

I've just reintalled the OS on a machine and after joining it to the domain
of my office, the options for Automatic Updates are greyed out.  They are set
to download and install all updates.  Any idea how I can get back control of
the updates?

I have a service that terminated abnormally, causing a TCP port to be blocked
and not released, so I can't start the service again. If I do a 'netstat
-ano' I see the PID of the blocking process to be 5108, but 5108 is no longer
in the process table - tasklist doesn't show it, so ...

Windows XP Pro.
I have my company laptop for both business and personal use.  When I boot
up, it has me log into the company network even when I am home.  In an effort
to bypass that so I use it on my home network, I deleted the user account for

Is it okay to block execution of .vbs files using Group Policy? There
are no known uses of .vbs files on my network.
Thanks,
Rod

I have a user who said that when he turned on his computer this morning, that
the taskbar was missing at first, and the machine was acting very sluggish.
When I looked in his event viewer, he's got a whole slew of Service control
manager 7011 errors.  I have found some mention of ...

I suddenly am asked for a password to login to my computer. As I am the only
user I never set up accounts so I have no password. Any assistance greatly
appreciated.

I need help turning on my firewall ....i can't seem to get it opened..it
keeps giving me a message about not being about to start the windows
Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service. Is there anyway to go
around this or a firewall thats free i can download from ...

I reset my password last night, but somehow i misspelled the password in both
fields. I was wondering if there was anyway i could get into my computer so i
could delete the password and start over without having to bring my computer
in for repair.

How to Determine the Version of Windows XP Service pacck in Use by registry
key?
Thanks in advance!

Is there a way of creating a new folder that is linked to an old one so that
information saved in the old one is automatically linked to the new one? Also
is there a way of doing this so that if information is deleted from the old
folder it stays in the new folder?

I have IIS configured for FTP to a local folder which has full permissions
for "IUSR_computername"
The same user is used for anonymous logins to my ftp server. Port 21 open on
router and in firewall.

I'm trying to apply policies to an XP workstation from Windows Server 2003
Active Directory. The policies are NOT applying to the workstation.
I verified that:
1. DNS is configured properly

In using a program to recover a deleted file, I discovered a bunch of
directories at the root level of my hard drive, with funky names like
C:\[DIR0004323]. And, yes, the brackets were part of the directory name.  
They had an odd variety of files in them.  I can't find a way to ...

I was having problems accessing the registry of windows xp from a
remote machine on the same network. I am able to access the the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_USERS folders by making changes to the file
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurePipeServers\winre­g.