I have a personal desktop used by other family members/friends
I have created a User account with Account type as Limited but still as
Admistrator I want to delete files saved by other Users,
Restrict users form

I receive the following error when booting from a cold boot NOT just a re
start.
"To help protect your computer Windows has closed this program:
Generic Host Process for Win32 Services"

Here is the deal: My computer was spammed with hundreds of accounts and I
cannot find my admin account. I have tried to type in "control
userpasswords2" in Run but when I enter my user name and password it says
that it couldn't grant me access.

I often recieve notification of failed e-mail delivery of e-mails I did not
send to addresses I have never heard of.  In these notifications my address
and the target address are always prefaced by the number 34.
Is my computer sending out spam without my knowlege ?

I have suddenly observed that an unknown user has appeared on my laptop.
Can  anyone tell me if this is a legitimate user:  ASP.net Machine...A,
Limited Account, Password protected ?  No one, to my knowledge, asked to
have access to my computer.

When I used Norton Internet Security I knew how to allow trusted programmes
to connect to the Internet. I got rid of that and now just use Windows
Firewall. Can I allow programmes access in a similar way? Or does Windows
Firewall function in a different way?

Help. I have some type of virus or trojan program running. When i run
my windows XP, my wallpaper automatically turns plain blue then turns
and stays white. Unfortunately I can't change the wallpaper back or
even to anything else form my control panel. In addition I can't

Can anyone help. I have a virus or worm in my computer. I have windows
XP. When I start my computer, after it  start to log on and the
desktop screen apears, the computer shuts off and starts to reboot all
over again. I can run it in safe mode but dont know what I need to do

I have more than 300 machines that they are in wrong DNS server, how can I
add new one to Preferred DNS server on TCPIP properties, current each machine
have 206.117.120.66
206.117.120.68

Hello,
I don't know if this is possible or not but here it goes. I have two users
that use a computer running Windows XP Pro. One user logs on to the Novell
network during the day. The other users comes in after and logs in as a

I am attempting to set up group policy for the windows firewall for our
laptop users.
I am able to open up the firewall for the usual suspects, namely rdp and
icmp. However, there are a couple of other ports that I need to open but when

I am attempting to set Group Policy for our laptop users. I want the firewall
on when they are off the network and I can get it so it will allow ICMP and
RDP. I have 2 other ports that I need to open, 6129 and 2258. So I go under
Admin Templates, Network Connections, Windows ...

On XP Home or Pro system that only has SP1 installed, if I install SP2 from a
CD, will it update the system with all the security and os fixes I would
normally get if I installed all the other XP updates I would normally get
from Windows Update?

I'm trying to automate the backup of a user's EFS cert using cipher /X
but for some reason piping in the password via stdin won't work, I
just end up with a .PFX file without password protection.  If I don't
specify the path to the .PFX file on the command-line, causing cipher

I have around 100 users with laptops and when these guys go on travel
they are not able to update Windows updates and antivirus
updates ...how can I make sure while they are on travel they are are
secure and have the appropriate updates.