can anyone help?
i've been trying to install windows service pack 2 to my home computer but
it keeps coming up with an error message saying that the program it needs to
install sp2 is in use by another application. however every window is closed

this is my question..
Is there any way to watch users activity in a LAN?
For instance i want to know when a user log in the server,when was the last
time user log in and inforfation like that..

4 days ago, while checking email  at a university website, my computer froze.
Windows manager popped up but the computer froze. But something was going on
since the hard drive light was flashing all the time.  If I restart, it goes
to the accounts page; neither keyboard or mouse ...

What settings do I need to change to download programming from websites. I
work in a radio station and someone fiddled with my security settings so now
when I go to right click a program, the save target as is not darkened. I am
running win xp

I have forgotten my admin password on my home computer. My other account that
is set up on my computer is set so that no downloads can be made. Does anyone
know how i can get into it and reset the password (I did not do the option to
save the password to a disk. I have windows ...

I just found that my hacker roommate has signed MY digital ID..has all codes
and is accessing all my contents in XP media edtion. whrn I tried to add
something It told me that I was invalid information. Matt has registered the
compter to himself thru Sony vaio..has top admin ...

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

I am running Windows XP Home  Edition SP1. Yesterday, I got a message (popup)
which said that "Microsoft will stop support for SP1 from 10-October-2006"
and prompted me to download/install SP2. Is this a valid message or some
spyware/adware. Unfortunately I followed the link and ...

I noticed two strange processes when I looked at startup tab via MSCONFIG:
QLNJERD and XFZYXTK -- both are in the WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 folder according to
MSCONFIG
Should I stop them from starting up? I looked on Google and there are no

I need to access files that I have backed up on a TrueCrypt NTFS drive.
The files were backed up from my work computer that disallow any reads
except for the file owner, so my home laptop can't read the files. My
home laptop has WinXP Home, so I can't change file permissions. Also,

Iwould like to know if Windows XP Home comes with resident antivirus
protection?  I know there's a built in firewall.

On my home computer I have Admin rights on my WinXP Pro system, but the
Adminstrative Tools folder is empty, and I am denied access to the folders in
the All Users/Documents folder that are created at system install time (e.g.,
My Music, My Videos, etc.).

I installed Windows XP Media center on my computer that was running XP
pro earlier.
Initially when I was trying to install the Media center I was having
some problems, so what I did I changed the BIOS setting to boot from

Hi, how are you? I hope fine...
1: I would like to know if I encrypt any folder and if anybody take the HD
out and plug on another XP/NTFS system machine, that folder could be read?
2: I am a developer and I would like to create a system and my DB will stay

When I boot up I am asked for my password, it is accepted, we go to start to
show my desktop, the computer then shows me a logging off box, then saving
settings box and we go back to my orignal enter password screen, at this
point we start over. Please help.