I have an administrator account on an AD domain.  I routinely VPN from
home into the lab of computers to do maintence on them.  The issue
comes that users who are local, can login over me.  Is there a way to
disable this at all?  I have a screwed up install of Visual Studio on

I'm constantly getting disconnected from the internet, sometimes by trying
to open another window from an url or anytime I try to send email from
Outlook Express.  I've noticed this since yesterday, I recently upgraded to
IE7, didn't have this problem with IE6 SPII.  I use Norton ...

Looking at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /  SOFTWARE I see some old stuff:
- American Online [I never had AOL, this is from Compaq]
- Apple [the only entry is QuickTime32, but I recently uninstalled QuickTime]
- Apple Computer, Inc. [the only entry is QuickTime, but I recently

Im trying to setup windows xp logon screen, I already have it set where user
has to hit ctrl-alt-del at start up, but what Im trying to accomplish is
where the user has to type user name and password everytime the pc starts up,
reboots. Have not been able to find it. Example If i ...

We currently have 450 users in our domain. We have profiles setup where if a
user logs into any PC in the office, they will see their default drive
mappings etc.
One thing users cant do is install programs and run PCanywhere unless they

Hello: I tried disabling the XP sp2 firewall, and restarting the computer, no
help there.  I tried entering the names of the websites in the exceptions, no
help...I am trying to log in to websites where I know the user and password
but the login screen does not appear, only the ...

Help....
I recently checked my task manager and found that the system idle process is
eating up to better than 90 % of my cpu capabilities. Is this normal or
might I have a virus or something along that line?

I’m wondering if there is a possibility to turn off the "I have a firewall
solution that I'll monitor myself" check box in security center when the
firewall is turn off, thru a reg hack or a group policy. I don’t want the
domain users to be able to check the box if the firewall ...

I switched to McAfee from Norton Security/Anti-Virus
because my ISP advised to use this, Free Anti-Virus that
is compatible to the ISP.
After having installed McAfee and put it on scan, it taking

I have 4 PC's that are linked together in a Home Network using MSHOME.
How do I go about setting up the group policy, so that anyone who might
happen to get into my network, is not able to access networked file shares?
Thanks,

Why is the security center reporting that eTrust ITM is out of date, when I
know the later signature has been downloaded?
Kim

We have some issues with Adobe Flash and Acrobat Reader 8.0 that corrupted
some Registry keys on multiple computers.  Basically, they've set the
permissions to EVERYONE = Read, and, correct settings can only be applied by
taking ownership of the key, THEN changing the permissions ...

i have just re-installed xp and have set up two new limited user accounts for
my wife and son, including setting them up with their own email. At the
welcoming page these user accounts have the message '1 unread message' even
though there are no unread messages in any of the ...

I had earlier encrypted some files on a user account that did not have a
password.  I saved the encryption key.
I realized that it was dumb to not have a password on the account so I added
one using my administrative account.  Due to the warning about losing

I've a stand alone xp sp2 client.
On this client I've a smard card reader.
Could I use a smartcard logon on a stand alone clinet (It doesn't join a
domain).