I am an adult and I have reason to believe my spouse installed some sort of
monitoring software on my computer.  How can I find out for sure?  And is
there a way to remove it?

When launching Windows Defender, I receive the following message
"Application failed to install 0x800106ba. A problem caused Windows Defender
service to stop"
What's Wrong?

Running XP Home on home pc. I have one user with Administrator priveleges.
However when i try to logon as Administrator I get a message about
restrictions on this account. I have no password on Administrator. Can logon
in Safe mode as Administrator.

I think this is a dead end, but here goes just in case.
Does anyone know of any tool that is capable of remotely enabling the
IPC$/admin$ share of Windows XP SP2? Obviously I know the username and
password of an account that has admin priviliages on that pc.

Yes, I can still access it in Safe Mode but how can I get it to appear
again as a selection after a normal XP boot process?
I hope someone can be of help.

What the provide documetnation fails to go into is Temp folders in the
Windows Directory and the hidden Temp folders In the Documents and Settings
Directory often have files and folders left behind after installation needed
to uninstall programs installed by MSI technology. These ...

It's a known fact that over 93.7% of computers that are over 30 days
old are infected with spyware and adware. Such software is rarely
accompanied by an uninstall utility and even when it is it almost
always leaves broken Windows Registry errors behind it.

Can anyone recommend a good, concise security tutorial and overview for
someone just starting out with Microsoft server technologies? Thx.

I have a used computer.  I found a website that gave me the instructions for
changing the computer name.  Previously, it had a user name and domain name.  
I changed the user name, deleted the domain name, a put in a workgroup name.  
The system rebooted and after CTRL-ALT-DEL I ...

I try to remove from my registry entries by altnet using
reg editor.I can not delete altnet entries which are
Altnet/Dashboard/ Settings. I can not access settings and
delete any other entries. I know that it is part of Kazaa

I obviusly havewindowx xp service pack 1, and whenever I try to install the
sp2 version I got form microsoft Update, it always cuts the installationand
says access denied.  This seems weird to me since I am the computer
administrator.  Please help.

Only local connection and local computer showing in My Network Places
where I once had three other networked computers also showing.
I installd a network manager on my local computer and now I can not brows my
network places.

I just installed Windows Server 2003 on a machine that had been
running Windows 2000 Server (clean install, not upgrade).  During
the installation process, I must have inadvertently clicked some
security setting, because I cannot install some software (in this

I have a 3GB avi file I just downloaded and renamed.
For some reason, whenever I try to rename or move it, it would say someone
has the file opened or is in use.
computer management shhows nothing is open in shares.

is the ICMP Ping port supposed to be open?