After installing SP2 on my XP Home Edition, I loose all internet
connectivity. Opening a browser causes the browser to stay up for a second
and then shuts down. In-installing SP2 gives me back my internet
connectivity. What am I doing incorrectly?

have been receiving lot and lots of failed e mails, that are returned to me
by 'mail demon' and others from addresses I don't recognise and to people
I've never heard of!  Recently I've sent a couple of e mails to people that
haven't arrived with them.

I use Windows XP and Firefox web browser.
I downloaded a toolbar program from the site Neopets.com.  I downloaded it
okay into the Admin account and the install program appeared onto my side
account.  When I try to install it into the side account it says that I need

Issue A
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From all Microsoft Office applications I have only
the viewers for PowerPoint, Excel and Word 2003 installed.

My configuration: Win XP Pro Sp2, Win32,
.Net 2.0 and .Net 1.1 installed cause Catalyst Control Center doesn't
want to run if .Net 2.0 only installed.
I downloaded now NDP20-KB922770-X86.exe - but running it I get the error

I have 2 xp home computers to share folder for each other. But one of xp
home computers cannot browse all share folders of the other and display error
of access denied. One strange thing is that if I put
\\computera\sharefoldername from computerb which is fine. How can I solve ...

A while back I was getting alot of activity on my computer that was not mine.
I loaded spyware doctor and found 29 trojan horse viruses on my computer.  I
deleted them and setup passwords for all user accounts.  My question is: Can
I set XP to automatically log off users after ...

How to remove the security tab in Win Xp and 2000 Prof.. by usin
Regedit..
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dinesh.p

I have a PC with windos XP prof operation system, and always, when booting
the machine appear the message : the security infomration is invalid or has
been modified, the program will be terminated; after clicking OK, the PC
works normally

I have two questions:
1. There are two places in XP that control File and Printer sharing. One is
in the properties of Local Area Connection, and the other one is in Firewall
setting. Which one takes effect?

If installing the security updates using windows update
service, all issued updates are being downloaded and installed
on the fly. Single system restart is required finalizing windows
update process.

Since I have loaded NAV 2006 onto my PC it has slowed it right down, any
advice or anyone had same problem ?

Is there a way to configure XP Home edition (e.g., registry hack) to show the
Security tab on object properties?
Thanks

I have a new laptop and after a couple of hours on the internet  alerts
starting popping up saying my computer was being nfected and to download
software to get rid of it.  I did that and now the "uptodatesecurity.com"
site keeps coming up when I log on to the internet.  Why is this ...

I am becoming annoyed at this constant updating request I am receiving. Its
always the same request to install an update to the Microsoft VM. I install
it as requested, then re-boot as requested. The next day and every day
thereafter I receive the exact same request. What's ...