I have a laptop running XP pro.  I WAS running standalone sharing files and
printers over a workgroup at home.  I took a consulting job and used my
personal laptop.  The company set me up with a domain login with the login
dialog window versus the XP welcome screen login.  I have ...

I have set up a shared folder with access over the network to "everyone" and
set that to have full control over the folder. I have disabled the "use
simple file sharing", and I was hoping to connect to that folder from another
pc on the network without having to type a username ...

I have a client whose computer was set up with no passwords. I want to
remote desktop to it, but I can't because it won't let it happen with
no users. My question is, If I set up an administrative password on
this computer, will the user still have access to his documents and

try to use system restore,get #1 you do not have sufficient security
privliges to restore your system etc. .....  i  get window to login with user
name and password i do it and get #2logon failure:unknown user name or bad
password,but it is correct info even change name and ...

Why does the following command work when issued from and XP sp1 machine, but
fails on SP2?  How can this be made functional on an SP2 machine?  The error
on SP2 is invalid verb switch?
Here is the command.

I have windows xp, and My pc keeps shutting down and, after the error report,
microsoft said it is a virus so I ran the protective scan on the microsoft
safety website.  It found 15 threats but all of them said they were "unable
to clean."  It said to check the boxes then click ...

Is it possible for me to add a pc and user B into the permission list of pc A
that has the share folder on it. I am not using any server, they both belong
to the same workgoup, and are on the same subnet.  When I go into the
security settings and try to add this into the ...

This beauty pops up in my Event Viewer:
The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal
processing.  HRESULT was 800706BA from line 44 of
d:\qxp_slp\com\com1x\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp.  Please contact

Hi, my computer has stopped  installing updates. it downloads them but
cant install. get error ox80070002, looked at this & followed
instructions, deleted data folder. tried to delete download folder but
it says cant delete - spmsg.dll is being used by another program, but

i give to all xp users access USER and all is going fine.
but i have one problem:
one of them need to go to clock/date/time to change the hours to correct the
clocks where all enterprise register what hours coming to job.

Gang,
There are 2-issues here that may/may not have to do with one another, so
here goes:
I recently tried Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up my Task Manager (XP Home) and

I did a scan with Ad-Aware SE and got these.
Are these registry entries valid Microsoft entries?
WindUpdates Object Recognized!
   Type               : Regkey

The motherboard in one of my computers died.  I have the boot drive from that
computer in an external enclosure and would like to access some of the files
from a 'my documents' folder without making the now external drive the boot
drive in another computer.  I have a computer ...

I am trying to install a program for my wife.  (creative keepsakes scrapbook
designer platinum).
I keep getting an error message.
"Error 1402.Could not open key: UNKNOWN\MSSOAP.ConnectorFactory.1\CLSID.

I wanted to restrict my 6-year old from inadvertently transmitting personal
information over internet. Now-a-days kids are spending more time in
studying, playing and interacting with friends over internet. It is nearly
impossible to keep looking over their shoulder all the time. ...