I have a rather large network and seem to have a few issues with users
permissions, I have read a few articals mentioning that domain users (i
think) should be made a member of the local administrators group on client
machines. Is this normal practise?

Would like to change the setting of Administrator approved active x controls
for IE.  Mage the setting in the default domain GPO but it is not being
cahnged on my machines.  Assured that GPO is being read by doing a gpresult
on workstations, but the one one ploicy change not ...

This program has been blocked by my firewall, how do I know if it can be
trusted?
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i just cant find my system32 folder inside c:\windows DIR. to get it, i
tried looking inside by command prompt also but it dosnt show up.
well, but here, it seems the other way.
in Explorer, when normally browsed, it's not there inside windows folder.

I have a computer room that I have been using windows 98se in. This room is
basically a general use room for all visitors to our resort.
I have tweaked the registry with a tool and other manual adjustments to
really lock down the system and well as hide drives and remove power from ...

I just got a Seagate 160 GB External USB hard drive.  It is formated FAT32.  
Can I use the windows XP utility to backup to it?  My data backup would be
about 8 GB so I would need to have the backup in several files due to the
FAT32 file size limit.

After reinstalling windows xp (prof) one to many time, I decided that I
was sick of wasting DVDs to back up my 30+ GB of music. This time I
split my RAID into two seperate drives with the intent of using one as
the system drive, and the second as a data drive.\

I have a home network with four PCs.  Two are Windows XP Home and two are
Media Center.  One of the Windows XP Home machines (call it "victim") shares
a folder and printers.  All other machines have been able to print on that
printer

A GPO setting was applied to a laptop at a remote location. The user can not
longer run anything on their computer. Any ideas how I can get rid of the
setting?
The GPO that was mistakingly set was "Administrative Templates\System\Run

administrator files have been removed,would like to know how to restore them
but dont have privalege to do so

We are operating Windows 2003 Server with XP Clients.  We have set a
group policy that states clients should:-
Password History = 12 remembered
Max Age = 90 days

I want to create a folder in which all users can add and read files but
cannot modify these same files after they have been written to the folder.
Iknow this is possible with FTP, but in this case we are just using standard
file and print sharing.

When I try to add an XP workstation to a Server2003 domain I get an error
"the following error occured attempting to the domain. Access is denied"
This doesn't make sense to me because I'm using the proper domain admin
password to add the wrkstation to the domain. I checked out ...

Dears;
Unfortunatly, the auditing service was not enabled.
Can please advice me to find like this log file or something can give me the
info. considering that the audit was not active

When in control panel I try to open Windos Firewall and get a message "Due to
an unidentified problem Windos Firewall cannot be displayed." What can I do?