I just had a user lock out a local admin account?
this is new? I did not think local administrator accounts were subject to
GPOs such as the account lockout thresholds etc.. I didn't think the local
administrator account *could* be locked out by too many failed login

I have, all of a sudden, received a restriction warning "Administrator has
prohibited access to CD/DVD drives".  There is a red crossed circle over my
two external disk drives, my floppy disk, my internal and external DVD drives
and my USB drive.

When windows tries to delete this file "lpt1.idm" it messagebox's
"Cannot delete lpt1: The parameter is incorrect"
Nod32 (my AntiVirus) errors when deleting / quarantining it.
The virus warning appears everytime I load an application such as: Internet

i have a doubt....how to clear the run dialog box commands?th
previous typed commands are still in their Run dialog box...
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I have been getting a couple of notices of returned e-mails from email
addresses that I never sent an email to. I suspect that someone is
using my address to send spam. If someone could point me to some info
on this problem I would appreciate it. If this is not the correct

I wanted to run the Repair function on my WinXP Pro CD.  After selecting the
option 1 for the Win program it asked for the Administrator's password.  It's
been long lost.  I tried the usuals like 1234, just hitting Return, etc. with
no luck.  As far as User Accounts, it just ...

Hey all...
I have an XP SP@ box, that has my web dev wwwroot folder FULL of client
files, and for some reason in the past week or so, I can no longer just
dblclick a folder to open it to look inside??? I get an alert that says

I’ve got a machine for a particular user that unless this user is a local
admin, Explorer.exe will not run. This happened after applying Augusts’
Security Updates. I was thinking to just recreate the user’s profile and see
if that works. Has anyone experienced this or can anyone ...

I have a workstation running off of Window XP SP2, and have a problem with
the system remembering the last logon user name after rebooting.
I am using a user name that has administrator rights, but it is not the
default system administrator account.  I also have it configured that ...

Noticed an odd behaviour with effective permissions when directories were
moved from one location to another on a Windows Server 2003 file system.  In
particular, full administrative rights, although not lost, showed as
non-existent when tested using the effective permissions tab ...

The firewall is always turning itself off  - how is this possible have I got
some sort of program doing this, if so how do I alter this so that the system
stays on

Please help!
I have 2 computers and I transferred one hard drive from one to the other. I
did have a password set on that drive as you entered Windows XP. Now on the
other computer, the harddrive's folders show up but ACCESS IS DENIED to most

i have problems each time when i try to open a addressbar on internet
explorer version6. i can't see the addressbar it is happend when i try to
delete a yahoo tool bar.

In my c:\Program Files\ I have an entry Enigma Software Group.  When I
select this entry no files are shown.  When I check the properties I am told
there are 0 bytes in this folder and the folder is read only.  If I try to
reset the folder to eliminate the read only attribute I ...

I am trying to select a good "on the fly" encrypting product for sensitive
files on my laptop (XP MCE).
Anyone familiar with True Crypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/) or Cryptainer
(http://www.cypherix.co.uk/index.htm). Both products seem very similar but I