Last week, I had to do a restoration on my windows xp system.  Befor
this was done, I had assinged a log-in password for my protection.
Now, the password I had is'nt working, I have typed as many password
that I could think of, with no results. I keep restarting the system

I want to recommend a firewall for a friend who just converted from dialup
to DSL. She is not very knowledgeable about computers, so I don't think
zonealarm would work for her. Even I have trouble deciding sometimes whether
to allow or not allow some .exe to act as a host...

Please Help? I am trying to set up or at least edit my user accounts and for
some reason when I go to control panel/user accounts and I double click on
the icon nothing ever opens. The timebar comes up like its working on
something but it never opens. Id like to give my computer ...

I'm having a major problem trying to edit user accounts. Everytime I go
through Computer Management -> Local Users and Groups and attempt to change
the group a user belongs to or edit their permissions directly I get the
following error message:

I accidentally delated my Windows restore icon...and can't seem to find the
program on my computer....How do I get it back?
Tom
Tomguerin@hotmail.com

The operating system I'm using is Windows XP Professional (Chinese
Simplified) (5.1.2600.2180, xpsp_sp2_gdr, 050301-1519, up to date) (VLK
Edition). The system is installed in the first partition of my only hard
disk, and the file system is NTFS.

Halfway through loading I get an error message saying 'access denied' and I
get another fail loading screen and service pack 2 begins to undue the
loading. (I am signed on as the administrator).
I uninstalled Norton security and that didn't work.

Question 1:  By default is this service DISABLED after SP2 is installed on
Home and Professional versions of XP Pro.??
Found this info...
http://www.theeldergeek.com/hid_input_service.htm

I worked for Microsoft in a non-tech capacity until 2 years ago, and when I
left they agreed to let me to take my laptop with me as part of my package.
Suddenly today when I booted up my computer I got a message saying that I am
not running a genuine copy of Windows XP. What has ...

I recently had to have my PC rebuilt after the CPU failed, the old CPU was an
Intel P4 which was fine when I installed SP2.
On the rebuild I decided on an AMD Athlon 3500 64 bit  processor.
The problem is now I can not install Service Pack 2 each time I do it

I would like to know if it exist a method or policy settings that allow us
to disable PCMCIA cellular network card automatically when a laptop is
connected to the lan.
This is a security issue...

I have had a computer built by a personal builder, when I first got the pc it
was fine later I started getting messages saying that my copy of windows may
not be real, I have since found the builder and purchased the coa and now
want to install it so that I can get on with my ...

My 12 year old daughter has made her folders private and I now have no way of
checking who she is in contact with on MSN.  I used to be able to check her
chat logs but after questioning her about some unsuitable content that I was
unhappy about she has now made her files private. ...

I need to add a couple of users to an XP Pro machine see they can
access certain folders but not others via a mapped drive. However, I do
not want those users to be listed on the login screen because I do not
want it to be obvious that they can login on the machine. How can I

I have a small office network with ~25 client PCs all running WIN XP Pro.  
Our servers run WIN 2000.  While preparing to install Symantec Client
Security 3.1 on the server and then push to the clients, I noticed that some
of the clients have SP1 and some have SP2 and all the ...