I have XP Home and for some reason the system locale is set to English (New
Zealand).  I cannot find any setting that is currently set to English (New
Zealand) so how can I change the system locale to something else?

Hi, I just installed a program with my administrator account.  I then created
a copy of the desktop shortcut and pasted it into my user account.  When I
log in as a user the program refuses to run.  How do I set my permissions so
it is able to run in user account?

i would like to make it so a certain user on my system has no right to
install software of any kind. i know that the guest user is like that, but i
would like to customize this my way. thanks

i am trying to run the file shareing program bear share and it keeps running
into a problem and has to close.I checked my firewall staus and changed it to
allow bearshare but bear share keeps saying the tcp fw is still firewalled so
i turn the firewall off and it still says it is ...

I am thinking of using TrueCrypt to create a container which will hold
(encrypt) all my files that may have a password in it.  This would
include My Documents and Internet Explorer's cookies.  I'm not sure
about the Temporary files for IE though.  Would that contain any

Please help me i really need your help. This my connection from my
linksys router to our switch the name of the switch is nortel baystack
425-24T. We dont have any server here. My problem is there is somebody
who download big files. And our internet connection will become slow.

I'm trying to setup a computer to use the internet throught a Ethernet
SmartSwitch.
As soon as I boot up the XP Pro machine it cannot assign an ip address so I
manually do it

How do I utilize restrictions within XP similar to those available in 2000
(i.e. user restrictions).  I have set up XP to load a specific application
and have restricted the user from accessing most applications, however when
the application is closed and they are brought to the ...

Windows XP Professional SP2 - fully patched.
When I installed XP I created two Administrator accounts and three limited
user accounts.
For some reason the administrator accounts appear to have lost the ability

Can someone point to where I can find a good list of exactly what a windows
"user" can and can not do.  vrs power user.
thanks!

I access the internet through a home wireless network which connects through
a router to a cable modem. The wlan (just 3 PCs running XP Home) is
protected with WPA encryption and each PC has XP's firewall turned off but
has ZoneAlarm free in effect (as well as virus checkers, ...

Can someone help me recall which security patch from Microsoft is responsible
for removing the default administrative share in windows xp? what is the kb
number?

I have tried to download ad-aware and spy search and destroy. Each time i try
and download it when its done i click on the run and nothing happens the
little window just closes. Any advice?

my girlfriend got a virus on the system and ever since then I have not been
able to put my firewall on. what can i do to fix this problem.

it says I have no virus protection, but I downloaded the microsoft defender,
why is it not reconizing it ???