User: Network Services
Domain: NT Authority
is accessing my system in the wee hours of the morning with Special

I checked the Event Viewer/Application log and noticed a number of entries as
below:-
Source:      Userenv
Category:   None

Ok I am admin on this pc. There is a limited user that has a private
account.
I have just restricted there account to not allowing them to kill my
hard drive with stupid content. Now I want to be able to go in to the

Which NTFS permissions allow users to run applications?
Modify (yes)
Read and Execute (yes)
Full Control (yes)

Yes another dumb question,
I can't seem to get my computer to use the logon at start up. I feel I have
tried everything I know to do which is limited so what do I do to require
logon at start up?

I downloaded a file from some screwball on the net, thinking it was something
else. Ever since then I can't get into the command prompt, system restore and
task manager. I've been at this for days and while there is plenty of
websites to get these items back, there aren't many ...

I'm not sure if this is the correct newsgroup to ask this question, but we
want to deploy a group policy that prevents users (domain users and users
with local admin rights) from installing any applications on their computers.
I saw that you can with in group policy: 'Hide Add new ...

After modifying the startup files in the SC Utility, I always get this
message upon restarting telling me what I've done and opening the Utility for
me.  It's really obnoxious - is there some way of turning that off?

OK, this one has me puzzled -- several machines exhibit the
same pattern.  I have updates set to "Notify me but don't
automatically download and install them".  Machine
running XP Pro, SP2, most patches installed.  I get the

The Windows Security Center does not seem to recognize my anit-virus, which
is up to date and is turned on.  Should I be concerned or just monitor this
myself and not worry about it?

I am being told that although a user may be in the Administrators group, that
user does not have the ability to delete other user profiles.  According to
MS, anyone in the administrators group has the ability to delete profiles.  
These workstations are not in a domain so AD ...

We're working on a secure directory concept where we need to limit directory
access to certain approved executables. Is there a way in NTFS to do this?

I have  a laptop running XP Pro. We have various groups that use this laptop
for presentations. I have just set up one local account that all individuals
use for logging in locally. Today, a user lwas locked out after numerous
failed attempts to log in. I logged in as local ...

What exactly does this mean and how do I correct it.... I tried adding users
to the
remote desktop group on the local computer but this did no good.... The
network itself is a SBS 2003 domain...

I have scehduled a job using 'shutdown -r' to shutdown my computer at a
specific time and date, but I noticed that if the screen saver with 'on
resume, password protected' option is turned on, the shutdown will fail!
Can someone help, please.