I have 2 computers that connect directly to the internet through the same
hub. I tried to set up a link between the computers to share files, etc.,
and a message came up that people on the internet could gain access to the
computer if I did that.

Having problems with Win XP Home Edition set up with two users, both are
Administrators.
My understanding is that Administrators should be able to view and work with
system folders, change Internet settings, etc.  However, in my case one

Other than RTS'ing to the PC remotely with an administrative id, is there any
way to add a user to the "Power Users" group and then later, remove the user
from the "Power Users" group?  For example, is there anyway of causing net
localgroup to run on the remote PC?  We are ...

My XP SP2 computer is connected to a Netgear router and I have set it up to
run ftp service.  As my ISP blocks the usual port 21, I did the following to
get around it:
1. Port forwarding is created on the Router to use start port 10008 and end

I had been asked to fix a computer after an employee made several changes.  
After repairing the computer, I logged onto the administrator profile
(agyadm) and I attempted to change the user permission from "administrator"
for this user's log in (john) to "Power User".  I did this ...

Our IA staff is running network scans and this (ICMP timestamp request is
allowed from arbitrary hosts) is one of the things we are taking a hit on.
Now we know we're blocking ICMP at the numerous firewalls. The problem I
believe is just internally due to a setting in the XP ...

I checked the posts but tha kind of problem seems to be limited to the
desktop.
As for me it is all the microsoft icons in the whole computer that changed
into generic icons during the night with the PC still running.

Every day or two Microsoft Update keeps notifying me of a new Securtity
Update KB917734, sometimes along with other updates. for Windows Media Player
10 in XP SP2 Home Edition.  
I've been telling it to go ahead and download and install it, which it does

I want to install a new version of a program on my computer. I
uninstalled the old version of the program and tried to install the
newer version. While installing this new version I recieve several
errors, the most common was:

The RPC service is running (set to Automatic and ">net start rpcss"), but for
taskkill and other stuff, I get "Error: The RPC server is unavailable."
Note: "Server" is not listed in services.msc (from googling, this might be a
big clue) and ">net start server" returns "The service ...

I would like to stop the user to install unauthorised program.  Can someone
advise me how to accomplish it.
Thanks,
Scott

Can someone advise how to stop the installation of captioned program to
avoid bringing in virus, adware, spyware, etc to whole LAN.
Thanks,
Scott

I’ve tried replying to other posts with my related question, but get no
response so I’ll start a new post.
I’m having trouble with my EFS files that I’ve had since October 2003.  I’m
using XP  After reading some other posts, I think I know what’s wrong but

Can someone advise how to stop the installation of captioned program to
avoid bringing in virus, adware, spyware, etc to whole LAN.
Thanks,
Scott

I want to disable IE for users, but allow an administrator to use it. I
thought that a policy and the "runas" command would do the trick, but I
seem to be wrong. Can someone lead me in the right direction on how to
do that- or at least the same result of disallowing internet access