I am running XP Pro (SP2) with OE6 and IE7 RC1.
I have had to use ASR (system would not boot) and it worked
very well. After restoring the ASR backup files I restored my
backup of "everything on my computer" and was back to normal.

I have an interesting situation I am trying to resolve. I have several users
on a machine assigned to several different groups. The machine is not on a
domain (for another set of issues), but is part of a workgroup with other
machines. The problem is kids - kids are allowed to ...

I have two topics/questions:
First, I know cipher exports your "keys" - does this mean BOTH the
certificate and the private key, or just the cert? If it's just the
cert, then how do you export the private key from command line?

Hi, I run a network at home, with 3 computers. Lets call them computer A, B
and C. So now computer A has folders with Access control (ACL) set to one
especific user (lets call him user 1). Now suppose that a user 2 working at
computer B tries to get temporally rights to access ...

Need to be able to grant "Power Users" the right to install local Plug-n-Play
printers (Example: USB connected HP 5650).  
1st - I know of and have already set the 2 Group Policys:
"Devices: Prevent users from installing printer driver" is disabled

Is it possible to have the same user logged in on both machines sharing
EFS encrypted files?
What I want to do is to use the XP power toys Sync tool to Sync 2
encrypted machines. Is this possible? I've tried exporting certificates

It is stated in the netsh help that you can dump the firewall settings in
order to load
them via the script command.
However, when i try to dump the netsh firewall config it does not produce

How do I stop 4 programs from starting up everytime I start up my computer ?
They show up in System Tray ?
I can't find anything in the programs to get them to stop autostarting....
so I want to prevent by using tool sin windows xp

When I resume use of my machine from the screen saver I get the "This
computer is use and has been locked" logon dialogue instead of the welcome
screen even though the Use Welcome Screen and Use Fast User Switching options
are ticked in the User Accounts settings.

I installed the Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit on the computers in our
school computer lab. One of the features of the Toolkit restricts access to
the hard drive. The problem is, in restricting users’ access to the hard
drive, they are prevented from saving anything on the ...

Hope somebody can help me! I've forgotten my password for and now can't
access my area because the hint I've set doesn't help either. I have a
limited account but obviously can't access the things I need. There isn't
anything that I need to save so I can reset the whole system ...

I wanted to restore XP to an earlier time and discovered that the only
checkpoints visible were for today and yesterday. I know that earlier ones
had been made because I'd done a restore some time ago. Is there some way to
check what check points should be available. In the ...

The following messages shown when am trying to connect other
computers in my networks by using Computer Management.
//  Local Users and Groups:
Unable to access the computer 192.168.3.24. The error

So to start, I was having trouble connecting to my home network, so after
trying to rerun the Network Wizard, I had set Sharing to "No".
Problem #1 showed up right after that. The "Shared Documents" folder
completely disappeared. Now with 35 Gigs of Music and Media, that's a ...

My window XP service pack 2 security centre is turned off. I am not finding
way how to turn on. Help me what to do to turn on.