I have become the defacto administrator for our computers at our church.  All
5 computers (Intel-based, Dell and HP computers) are running XP Home SP2 and
I'm not very familiar with XP HOME (I use XP PRO on all my computers at
home).  I'm trying to standardize stuff (adminstrator ...

I was administrator in my computer but i changed to a limited count. Now i
want to be adminstrator like i was to be but i don't find the way.
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I need to synchronize the system time all the 20mn, so that the children do
not modify it.

I've given my kids non-administrative user accounts to prevent them
installing whatever they get their hands on. (win xp pro sp2)
I installed some programs after logging on to one of their accounts (giving
my admin userid and password when prompted) using the install wizard and a

I am sorry this could be a basic question ..
Do i need to create a user for every user who i want to allow file and print
sharing on my system?  I use XP professional and i have a shared printer and
folder.  But users from other systems are unable to share them even though i

My situation is a bit different than some I've seen here. I got a new hard
drive and tried for days in vain to clone the old one. I kept getting errors.
Then, I was no longer able to boot my computer with the drive, but I had no
trouble accessing it in a different computer. I did ...

How do you lock your windows or pc with  with windows xp...

Situation:
A head office site with around 200 workstations and 107 remote sites with
another 700 workstations. The majority are XP with around 350 W2K.
We have a WSUS server which supplies Security Patch updates to all

I just downloaded the live update spytool and media player 11 now I have 2 XP
systems that are crashed Ive managed to boot up one I have Full formated the
harddrive and reloaded with Toshiba reload disk but the fault keeps shutting
my system back down I believe it is related to ...

When trying to open windows firewall, I get an error message that says " Due
to an unidentified problem, windows cannot display windows firewall settings "
Is there some fix for this so that I can adjust my settings??

I downloaded the KB928366 to my desktop last night as I was advised to do on
a previous post.
HOWEVER, today I was working with my laptop and decided to download the
Critical Updates and when I got to the Critical Updates page, I not only see

I know that this is going to sound like a completely idiotic question,
but I have a customer who is running sophos anti virus 6.5 and
puremessage, he would like to know when the licence runs out for it,
having lost all the paperwork, any ideas where I can get this

Hello to All:
Problem:
No domain controllers, just windows xp machines in a workgroup connected to
the Internet behind a secure DMZ, firewall, and proxy server.  I have listed

okay i set up passwords for windows a few weeks ago for me and husband,. and
mine is the admin.well we lost power last night and now i cant get on as i
forgot the passwords and cant find the paper i wrote them on.and my husband
cant find the windows media center disk.all i have ...

I occasionally have my computer freeze while using Cakewalk Sonar software
for mixing audio.  When this happens, I am forced to reboot the computer via
the reset switch.  After doing so, I always check the drives for consistency.
Since checking C: (my system drive) requires ...