I have used Zonealarm Pro for years.  I recently tried to upgrade it and it
blew up.  The old version stopped working and the new one could not be
installed.  I spent hours working on it to little avail.  So I turned windows
firewall back on,

Hi, I am just wondering if rather than starting up windows XP logged out, it
is possible to start logged in, but locked, so the programs that need to
start when windows starts up can without losing any security. My computer has
only one user and needs to be password protected.

I need help in creating an shortcut on a user’s desktop that cannot be
deleted nor has a shortcut arrow on it. Similar to how AOL puts their
shortcut icon on user’s desktops. I am specifically looking at way to
manipulate the registry to do this. The other icons on the desktop ...

Hello! I recently reformatted my pc and reinstalled WinXP home.
When I restart the computer, a pop up displays that my computer is currently
at risk, and there are no firewalls turned on.
If I click on that icon, I can turn the firewall ON (it is not greyed out)

I am not on a domain, home net work, admin on my machine, logged in as such.
And yet the firewall is grayed out.
I log in to pc with admin rights.
Since I can not turn it off, even with gpedit.msc, I can uninstall sp2.

After searching for 30 plus minutes, I still can't find an answer to this
question.  Remote Desktop stores a history of users that have been used to
connect to other computers.  How can I clear this out?
I've tried deleting the registry entries, the default.rdp file and clearing

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/APStyleGuide/
AppleStyleGuide2006.pdf:
"To maintain the distinction between professional administrators and
Mac OS X users with administrator accounts, avoid using the noun

hey guys.
Windows XP home edition. Horrified to find my Windows folder contents have
large numbers of sub folders appearing in blue script and all each carrying
the sub folder spuninst. Norton adtivirus scan reveals no viruses etc. Is it

I'm running XP SP2 on my home laptop and it has been joined to my work domain
so I can do work from home.  I don't want the domain security policies to
apply when I am logging on locally but when I try to change the settings in
gpedit.msc, everything is disabled.  Is there anyway ...

Hi;
I am using 'XP Professional' and I am finding it difficult to fix the 'ntldr
missing' problem. The pc stops booting as it is not finding the 'ntldr'. I
know that by booting from the 'xp' disk I can fix the problem but in order to

uSSPESOQsu0yNqTumyyPLBWW.exe
Can anybody tell me what this is? Found useing jv16 under programs.
Also in the Add remove programs in XP i have several programs that don't have a remove option, a search of this problem showed i wasn't the only 1 having it.
-BufferChm

On shutdown the monitor goes into standby mode.   How can it be completely
switched off?
Failing that can the user get a message asking them to fully switch off the
monitor?

I was wondering whether there is a way to get notified (e.g., by email) when
someone installs a program on my computer (e.g., a keylogger). Can this be
done without the installer know about it?
i appreciate your help.

Is there a way to deploy PERMISSIONS on HKCU subkeys via group policy? Trying
to prevent changes of a certain option within IE Advanced Settings.
Many thanks in advance!
thrillerIT

In searching for a solution to my problem, I happened to come across a couple of posts that referred
to the registry being "tattooed".  Well, here, this is one of them:
So in effect Windows 2k and 2k3 server can tattoo the registry, even though
it is not supposed to ... :)