I would like to setup a batch file to automaticallly map a drive on my work
domain laptop to my home workgroup computer. I don't want to add a password
in the batch file (security reasons) and was trying the savecred option in
net use but after disconnecting the mapped drive, ...

All of a sudden, within the last 3 days, ALL folders on my HD have gone into
"read only" for all users - all users are Computer Administrators.
I've read the "how to take ownership" - and am wondering if I should try
this, and how would I accomplish it for all files?

I have been using my computer under an administrator account and found out
that I should be using a limited account for security reasons. However I have
bunch of files and settings I would like to keep on a limited account, how
can I accomplish this? I am not switching computers ...

I try to download Internet Explorer 6 but i can not it says that i have to
restart my computer but i did. What can i do to get Internet Explorer 6. And
i'm running on Windows xp (pro)

I recently enabled group policies for my network Win XP comptuers from a Win
2003 DC.  After this, I realized when "some" users try to log on to their
comptuers, the computers have to synchrize the users' mapped network drives,
and then when users try to log off from their ...

We are having some trouble on Windows XP Service Pack 2.  We are in the
process of updating all our computers from Windows XP Service Pack 1 to
Service Pack 2 with all the latest updates from Microsoft Update, etc.
When certain users attempt to login, they receive an error after ...

An IT person at one of our offices is unable to edit the registry
permissions of a Windows 2000 Professional machine.
When he uses the menu Security...Permissions, the Permissions selection is
grayed out.  He is logged on as Administrator--at least, that's what he says.

I had a large virus infection recently(hopefully it's gone now). After MANY
MANY scans with Norton, AVG, and Avast, restarts, etc, the viruses seem to be
gone. Norton scan doesn't find any more viruses at this point. Windows
defender didn't even see the viruses at all, microsoft ...

Is it possible to lock down the Guest user account such that it cannot access
and browse the file system or a specific drive on XP Professional?

On XP logging into a 2003 server, the domain box shows our domain name
followed by (Windows 2000)
Have googled to no avail.....
What does this mean?

I have a batch file which I routinely run to copy some large files to my PC
from a server (with the XCOPY command).  The batch file also contains a
following DIR command so that I can see that the files have been copied over
(with the latest dates), and at the end is a PAUSE ...

All,
If you assign a domain user / local user to a windows service, is it
necessary to modify is ACL (launch / configuration/ access ) to enable
the assigned user to access the DCOM server.

Multipart inquiry:
1)
I have a user ID with admin privs that I use for one specific purpose.
It is used to load an ASP page that then kicks off background tasks

I'm trying to join a worksation into a domain but the Network ID tab is
greyed out in My Computer> Properties> Computer Name. I tried changing the
Local Security Policies to allow the change, but it was still greyed out,
even after the change.

How do I stop these anonying pop-ups from getting into my system?