I just ordered a computer for my 8 year old, for school projects and learning
games. I will have it on a home network with high speed and I would like to
make it safe as possible for surfing kids stuff. Is there some place I can
look to tell me how to set up a kids computer for ...

I have a portable NTFS formatted harddrive. I replaced the default
'everyone' access with 'my computer\administrator' access while the
drive was hooked up to my desktop computer (XP professional).
Now I want to allow another user (my notebook's administrator) to

Hi, all.
Who can explain me the following situation:
OS: WinXP
I have network share with User limit = 1.

Since Sunday Morning I've experienced a sort of DoS
when I first turn my machine on or if I've just restarted it I can get out 2
the internet and load a page in IE or download a few messages in Outlook then
after I've received a number a packets it seems like a door closes and I

I am using XP/Pro in a work networked environment and cannot get Activesync
4.1 to work.  It keeps spinning the green circle until it dies.  It 'appears'
there is a problem with firewall and not being able to allow 'exceptions' as
the Activesync entries are 'greyed out' on the ...

We went to the Critical Update page tonight to see if there were any Critical
Updates. We saw that there was something there to the effect that something
had to be downloaded that would make the Critical Update page function
better. (But it appeared what they were talking about, ...

Is there a way to audit whether someone has copied a file on the server to
their local workstation?  The only thing I can find is audit object access,
which will catch everything that was accessed.
Thanks... Chris

I accidentally deleted a user and the user files (including My Documents).  
Is there any hope of restoring these files?

Why does
net time \\myserver /set /yes
give access is denied?
I have set the same user accounts on both computers and they have the same

After I have moved a file, either by draging or using the move command I
cannot access the file.  I get an error message that is #3051 that basically
states that either somone else is using the file ( which is not the case), it
is write protected or encripted. I have tried to ...

On my home Windows XP Pro SP2 machine, I change password. After that I can
not use my personal certificate in mp personal stor.
I have several certificate, some of them I had no backup.
Two things I like to do:

I have windows xp home and am administrator. Somehow my limited user accounts
have full access to the control panel and add/remove programs. I want to
disable this access but I am not at all computer literate. I have gotten into
the registry and can find the users profile but ...

Situation: I have 2003 AD running with XP Clients.  I have some XP Laptops
not joined to the domain (waiting on VPN to avoid system lockout after x# of
logins without contacting the DC).  A new system that was recently added to
the domain is receiving the account logging for a ...

I have created a small script .bat file.
It basically consists of:
ipconfig /renew
ipconfig /all

Today, after reinstalling XP-Pro on a computer that had formerly had XP on a
different partition, all my folders (including those on FAT32 drives) became
read-only, and I can't copy files to them.  
I installed XP on a partition on a new hard disk for this computer because I