"ALWAYS USE SELECTED PROGRAM FOR THIS FILE ".THIS OPTION IS DISABLED EVEN
WHEN I LOG IN AS ADMINISTRATOR.I NEED TO ASSOCIATE A PARTICULAR FILE TYPE,BUT
CAN'T DO SO.
IS THERE AN OPTION TO ENABLE OR DISABLE IT IN GROUP POLICIES OR REGEDIT.

I want a script to be run for a user only the first time he/she logs on to my
Domain.how can i do this.if I but that script in his/her logon script,it
would be run so many time,which I don' want.what should I do?

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 I have an authentic version of Windows that was part of an HP OEM bundle at
the time of purchase of my computer. I always passed validation before on
the MSN udate site but for some reason I get a message that my PID is

My brother's XP Home PC's hard drive is heading south pretty quickly and will
no longer boot the PC. If I put the hard drive in a different PC as the
slave, I can recover most of the files, except for his directory which is
password protected. There is a whole raft of photos he'd ...

A neighbour of mine has accidentally deleted some AVI files.  They are not
in the recycle bin.  He has downloaded various freeware undelete programs
but when he runs them in order to restore they require payment.  He doesn't
mind paying but these have been rather expensive.  Does ...

as you know if you set a roaming user profile path for a user with the
following pattern:
\\<servername>\<sharename>\%username%
it will remove all permission from it and assigns only SYSTEM and that user

I recently setup our family computer [using XP Home SP2] with an Admin and a
Family User account [for the kids]. I am running McAfee virus scan and
firewall and update it frequently for the Admin user account; however, when
logged on as the Family account I get a message saying ...

My system is asking for administrative password when i boot up in Windows XP,
it is being asked since my newphew did something in it n he dont know the
administrative password.
Is there any way to recover the password ?

I recently changed my user account in XP Pro  from admin to debuggers group .
Now i cannot change it back to the admin group any ideas?

Hi,
Can we have rights of the Limited account to the Guest account?

Is this possible to allow power user save file to my document only?
Thanks

I have created a Security  Configuration and Analysis snap-in template
defining several System services.  If I open it from Security templates, I
can see my configuration but If I attempt to configure or analyze using, it I
get nada.  The rest of my changes are applied but ...

There is a GPO to force the Classic XP start Menu located under user
policy in Administrative Tools\System\Start Menu and Taskbar\Force Classic
Start Menu, however there is no GPO to force the XP start menu. The start
menu state is stored in the Registry Key

I was installing a new HDD in Windows XP pro (sp2) laptop which
includes several encrypt folders originally.
First, I copied all files under My Documents folder to USB drive.
Second, exported all Certificates from XP Laptop to my desktop (Win2000

I am trying to figure out a way to change the user name that is displayed on
the XP start menu to the machine name for the entire company.
I know you can change it to whatever buy going to Start\Control Panel\User
accounts and renaming there but I need a way to do this via ...