My cousin's computer has Win XP professional, (she is computer illeterate) my
nephew set himself as the administrator (he is only 12). My cousin wants me
to install a new printer however when I log in with her password the
installation process stops because she does not have ...

my son was screwing around and he has changed our account from admin to
limited and now i can not get it back to admin and it does not give me the
option to log in as a administrator to be able to change it back plz help me
someone

I'm new to configuring Windows XP for restriction purposes and right now I
need some quick help on this. Thank you!
Is there any method available to prevent users to access the hibernate or
screensaver setting for all users on Windows XP, where the computer is in a

My home page is hijacked.  I used SmitfraudFix as per other posts to clean
it in both safe & normal mode.  The infected home page is cleaned and the
home page is now reset to the default msn page.  However, the msn page cannot
be changed either.  The msn page becomes the new ...

Hi all. I hope I can find help here. After recovering from a virus attack on
my computer, I installed Spyware Doctor and during normal operation, it
reported a hidden process and asked if I want it deleted the next time the
system reboots. I clicked yes to remove wmiprvse.exe. ...

I have a folder on a CD that I keep unchecking the read-only button so I can
write to the cd a word file and it keeps rechecking the box.....help!

Since I use Symantec firewall, I want to turn off Windows Firewall (Security
Center warns me that it is not recommended to have two firewalls running at
the same time). But when I do that, Windows Firewall automatically turns on
after the restart?!

Family Tree Maker is one of those programs that won't run without admin
privileges.  I need to setup a shortcut on the desktops of our computers that
will run the program as an admin user, but I don't want the patron to see
anything or know that this is being done.

My Hp pavilion ze 1585 does not properly shutdown.  Upon choosing turn
off or restart, the computer goes into the shut-down screen, saves
settings, and then stalls on the "windows is shutting down/restarting"
screen.  This screen will stay up indefinitey, forcing me to manually

I tried using the Sophos tools to remove this virus and the tools do not
detect it.   My F-Prot Antivirus program keeps detecting this virus but it
seems to kill each instance before it can spread.  I don't see the modified
keys in the registry either.  However, I am still ...

Thanks to all again for each help I get from this forum! ;-)
In office we all use MS Outlook.
We always get spam mail and often MS Outlook receiving new message ge
stack, i.e. it hangs in receiving spam mail. Usualy, I close Outloo

Thanks in advance if you have some idea about where the root cause is.
This smells like a permission issue, but have not found one as yet.
Error message:
"Error 46:  Could not load or find the QuickTime ActiveX control."

In the course of investigating why a programme was not functioning correctly
I was requested to check the Security settings for permissions using Safe
Mode in Windows XP Home Edition.
Whilst checking these settings I noticed that each Drive Partition of my two

Is there some setting within WinXP Pro SP2 which protects the HOSTS file
from alteration? Following recent hardware problems, I took the
opportunity to re-install Windows using a slip-streamed SP2 CD. Under
SP1 I had never been able to run a successful upgrade to SP2 - Too many

Today when I started up my computer, I noticed that most of the icons on my
desktop (primarily shortcuts) have been replaced with blank squares.  The
icons are still functional, but the images that always appeared before are
gone.