I just got a new computer and I have configured my system with my account
(Mike) configured as an administrator. Now I want to try using my Mike
account as a limited user to increase the security of my system. I setup
another account (McAdmin) that is an administrator account and ...

I have a requirement in a client site to give access of Local Disk
Management to Power Users.  They have 2 removable hard drives which
they use for backing up onto, however when they insert a disk after
removing the other they have to initialize the disk again before they

I have reviewed many of the newsgroups having to do with the Firewall and its
behavior. None have addressed my issue. They system is turning off the
Firewall all by itself. I get the balloon warning that my computer may be at
risk. To correct the problem, click on balloon. I ...

According to the docs, I should be able to type
"shutdown -r -f -m \\renderbox -t 60 -d up:125:1"
at a commandline to shut down \\renderbox remotely, but on my LAN of WinXP
Home machines, this always fails with "Access is denied".

Appologies if this is on the wrong board but here goes......
Our network is some 6.5, 5 Netware and Windows 2003 boxes, everything is in
eDirectory and Zfd management agent on all machines and we use Group Policies
delivered by Zen.

anyone know how i can put in a password, so that my son can not get onto the
computer/internet?  we have 3 profiles mine, and my two sons.  one is very
computer smart.  i am looking for a way that they will not be able to be on
the computer while i am gone to work all day.  any ...

I have a workstation with XP Pro that has 2 user accounts active on it.  One
called Administrator obviously, and the other is user1.  On the user1
profile, there are two mapped network drives that connect perfectly fine, but
I receive an error regarding a ms20081pls.dll (I could ...

We have 2 policies in use for machines, 1 for laptops (=firewall is
enabled), 1 for workstations (=firewall is disabled).
I've got several laptops that aren't using the settings defined with GP. The
clients are running XP + SP2 with all the hotfixes, and the servers are

I am trying to upgrade my computer and it tells me in order to perform the
operation i have to be logged in as the administrator.  I did not set that up
so I dont know the password.  Please help!

Every time I boot, I get the exact same message from Defender asking me what
I want to  do about this file:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp\Adobe
Acrobat Speed Launcher.lnk

Recently Microsoft included the Windows Genuine Advantage program in the
routine
PC updates for WinXPSP2 PCs.
Now I and a number of my clients (all elderly and very wary of anything

How do I password protect a file share on XP?

Ive got a 3rd party program, Sage MIP Fund Accounting, that is erroring out.  
It gives us an error when printing and then shuts down the program.  When we
called Sage technical support, they say its a Windows XP Security / Printing
Issue.  They say we need to check the box next ...

I just went to updates and everything was fine but service pack 3 failed
because I don't have the Microsoft Word 2002 disk or at least I cant find it.
When I bought this pc it came from Dell with all the bells and whistles
installed, I got no disks with it.

I right click on a folder I want to encryp. Select properties, then
advanced. Then I can see the encryption option check box but it's disabled
so I can't click it. How do I enable it?
martin