I'm using a dos shell script to remotely shutdown my workstations daily with
the command:
shutdown /s /m \\ip.address /t 60 /d 0:0 /c "daily shutdown".
The problem is that I one line for each workstation, and if one of them is

Does anyone know anything about this file I found in System 32?
It is called CONFIG.MPF
Is it safe?
Thanks for your help.

I forgot my login password on my windows xp start up screen.  I am not sure
how I am ever going to log in because I do not know the password.  I need
some help on how login.  Once I am logged in I know that I can change it
later, but I need to be able to log in first.  Is there a ...

I recently got a laptop for my girlfriend and her kids.  she want me to
configure it to not let the kids download anything.  I then gave it to my
computer whiz brother but he couldn't get it to work.  He said something like
"I tried to do it in MMC but it restricted even her (My ...

ok so my task manager has all of a sudden been disabled by an admini,well im
the only admin on this computer, and i sure didnt disable it. Anyone know how
to re-enable it? Please help.

   Running XP Pro sp2 with current updates on all machines.  Recently,
(after patch Tuesday), My OS became paranoid of files launched from other
LAN machines.  A program (.exe file) is launched via shortcut on the
desktop of machine a to a mapped network drive on machine b.  When ...

I have this problem for some time now and i never found how to get ride
of it.
When i'm looking with netstat I get a strange connection initiated by
explorer. Exlporer is ALWAY connected to 82.98.235.141 on port 80 (2270

I have tried every way to load Kodak, it appears to be successful and then I
get an error message that says there aren't any back files, I click and then
it says that there is no administrator to match media stuff.  I am really
confused, at one time it was fine, then when the ...

When a user runs a program, he will get error if his domain account is not in
local administrators group. Any suggustion?
thanks.

Hi guys, not my usual domain to be asking security questions, but I
encountered a recent problem:
My office issued me an EFS certificate and after a hard drive failure, I'm
now unable to find that certificate. I've read that it's still stored in the

my run is gone i can't type any commands  help me UNdisable it

Here are some suggestions that I hope someone can pass onto microsoft
regarding the windows xp sp2 security center:
-There should be a built in wi-fi security checker. The security checker
should check to see if the wi-fi(802.11a,802.11b,802.11g) connection has WPA

I am using: Trend Micro Internet security 2007 and I would like to use their
Firewall.
I would like to turn Windows Firewall off but the on and off buttons are
greyed out.

1) We have limited Space on server now and all of the users were
configured to use server Mailbox-     Storage, since we were in a
critical stage thus we started all the clients to use Personel
Folders to minimize the storage on server.

I have setup trend micro agent in Group policy by putting the script in
sysvol/domain.name/scripts and became effected to all domain users but
my problem is users who do not have installation priviliges it gives
error until i login an account with installation priviliges.