We have a secure data center with two Windows 2003 Enterprise Servers. A DLT
tape is attached to the production server and uses NTBackup to archive
message log files.
Restoring log files to the production server is sometimes impractical

I had a second thought on my case therefore I would like to enclose it here
too.
First I put it in Windows XP General but I think here I can hope for a
solution.

Now that I have (thanks to Steven L Umbach) the ipsec connection to
work
on the XP machines I face a new problem.
Let's say A and B have a ipsec (not tunnel) connection. When A is

Hopefully this will be an easy one for this group.  Please excuse my ignorance!
Is it possible to password protect individual folders within Windows in the
way you can with Word or Excel files? If so, how can I do this?
Many thanks for any help

I have a bussiness network with thin clients (XP Embedded) and Terminal
Servers (non-altiris, Win2k3). Some thin clients have a problem that when a
person is logged in, the shutdown button has dissapeared. I might have found
the solution, but I want to be sure before I make an ...

keystroke logging-
can someone install a key logging program into another person's
laptop without any devices, like without physical access to the laptop.
and if so, how; like how can the program have been installed without the

I've just configured a Windows server 2003 PKI in the company I'm
working for, unfortunately we are experiencing some difficulties while
trying to put it into production.
Basically, EFS is disabled by the Default Domain Policy GPO, and

I would like to hide most of the programs I install on my XP-PRO for
users with limited access, but how can this be done? If I install a
program everybody would in theory be able to see and execute it.
Also, is there a simple way to remove the control panel for limited users?

No Help files work on my PC since Saturday.  I cannot open Windows Help &
Support or any other Help files.  The *.chm extension is no longer
recognized. No error messages....it just won't open.  Is there a way to
restore my registry to last week?  I removed some old software from ...

I have a laptop with XP Pro on the road, and my office PC is situated behind
a Cisco PIX firewall in my office (also running XP pro).
I'm trying to copy files from my laptop (currently in France) to my disk
drive in the office.  The process fails with an "access or disk-full"

I have created a second 'work' account on my computer to limit the amount of
procrastination I can do while working, and there are a few things I haven't
been able to figure out in terms of setting up this account, which I have set
up as an administrator account:

Using XP Home. Problem when I follow this procedure from MS:
"How To Manage Stored User Names and Passwords on a Computer That Is Not in
a Domain in Windows XP: Add an Entry
To manually add a credential: 1. In the Stored User Names and Passwords

I beleive at the end of May 2006 I download KB 905474 Genuine Advantage
Notification Critical update.
Tonight I notice another KB 905474 to be downloaded.
#1- Is this an update to the previous KB 905474 or does it relate to

I have a computer that just has one account, the main administrator,
as the only user. The computer boots up without asking for a password
or anything. I would like to make this a Limited User account and
retain all the settings and then create a main Administrator account.

I got my computer infected with a trojan horse, it makes symantec AV pops-up
every second to block a file copied to the windows\system32 floder, named
adl.exe.tmp.
I issued Netstat in the cmd, it shows a session to