this morning while browsing a forum on the internet there was a small window
stating my ip address,  ips, os,ie information.there was also a threat as if
to say my computer is not protected.should i be worried about hackers.

I have a question....
Is there an area where I can see the list of all patches concerning XPsp2
that has been issued by Microsoft.  I am thinking of blowing out my system
and reinstalling all software again. If I use MS Update I will be there

I received a small job today to add a user to the administrators group on a
PC in another state.  Usually what I do is use the computer management
command and then, managed a different machine, just add the user to the admin
group.  (I forgot to mention I am in that group)    

Consider the case where a software developer is developing code on
commerical off the shelf boards.  These boards - as part of boot up -
utilizes an FTP server (WFTPD) - with the appropriate user name and
password - to load their vxWorks kernel.  There's concern concerning

I have been playing with the security settings to lock the account after 2
tries. Now not very clever: the first day the account is blocked even though
i only typed it once wrong. That doesn't matter but what is importent is that
i can't unlock it!

Is there a way to set the "browse in same window" option in Windows Explorer
(Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types -> Advanced) through Group Policy?  
When opening a link to an Office document (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) we
would prefer the document open in its native app ...

I have a small (10) peer to peer network and I have some excel files with
macros and VB which I want to share with all. Mixture of XP home and XP pro.
The clients excel packages, refuse to run macros unless I reduce the macro
security to med or low on each.

I am logged onto my computer as Admin, my computer is part of a large
workgroup (on our LAN) which are actually imported into NDS. I am a member of
the Admin group in Netware.
When I do a RSOP on my local machine it works fine, if I try and do it on

We have a Win 2003 domain that has several OUs.  Each OU has several
user-groups for different Labs -- for security issues, e.g. file sharing,
printer sharing etc.  Now, all users in a OU can login to any computer that
belongs to that OU (not neccessary in the same Lab).  A ...

My problem is we are running one software (take ex: VNC etc) running our
machine. No user has admin rights to the system.
But i need them to start or stop the services (ex: VNC4) without admin
rights. This is need for only specified services not for all services.

Can you tell me if the following is a bug?
Do the following as a member of the administrator group
1) On an XP Pro (Version 2002, SP2), create a set of folders like this:
c:\test

I need to change a large amount of XP Pro pc's (56 to be exact) which
are not on a domain but in separate workgroup configurations. I need to
add the Password must meet complexity requirements policy.
What I am looking for is the actual registry key for this so I can make

Is there a way to tell XPsp2 so that if a user doesn't have an account
setup in control panel/users or system manage/users, taht they can't
logon to the machine locally or through the domain?
I thought the initial release of XP, if a users local account wasn't

how could i change this regirsty :
"Winlogon"="SYS:Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Winlogon"
into
"Winlogon"="SYS:Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Winlogon1"?

I was trying to set up an ad-hoc wireless network with two laptops.(both
running Win XP Home). I ran the Network set up wizard, then I enables File
and printer sharing. I wanted to rename the workgroup, so I ran the Network
set up wizard again and this time after I restarted my ...