My System Restore Service, Windows Firewall Service, Performance Logs and
Alerts Service, and a few other were turned off, and will not turn on. When I
try to start them, I get an error:
"xx service on Local Computer started then stopped. Some services stop

Hi all,
I have the following question regarding Windows XP:
Is it possible to determine the date (and evtl. time) when a user account
has been disabled/locked?

I have to use a program (under WinXP Pro) which sends an email to
abc@xyz.com.
The program must not send any other email.
Is there any way to check that the program sends emails only to abc@xyz.com?

I am having issues with running certain legacy applications that
require communication with parallel port dongles and COM port
instruments on an XP workstation.  Logging on with admin does not fix
the problem so I'm fairly certain that rights are not an issue.  In

MS WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL CD-ROM-- full retail with or w/o COA,
either genuine M$ or a copy.  Do have a WGA validated product key, but
my CD went south.  In fact, I'm also open to other XP Pro versions.
Eventual transaction to be carried out through eBay/PayPal only.  See

We have a number of consultants who use a piece of very flaky software,
which some times requires uninstalling/re-installing, or having fix-packs
installed. As our users don't have local admin rights they usually have to
come to the IT department, and we put them in a kind of ...

Some time ago I had to re-install my entire operating system due to some
error. I used a program called winternals to save all of my files to a backup
since my OS would not boot. Before this had happened I had some files that
where "Encrypted to secure content" (Right click

Over a year ago I used Windows XP Administration Policy to prevent my users
adding programs to a home-used laptop - because it had been used to install
un-authorised software.
I now need to undo what I did (laptop back at base) and cannot see the

I am getting dozens of these entries in the Security Log with  both Guest and
ASPNET.  This leads me to believe my machine has been hacked.  Is this true?
My machine is a Pentium 4 running XP SP2 Home and is up to date with
patches, or so Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer says. ...

I want to validate the login (session start) to any PC over a LAN using a
biometric database on a SQL Server. It is possible without saving every
account on each one of the PC's attached to the LAN?

Unable to delete a registry Key. I cannot change the permissions because it
will not display on this key. I cannot take ownership either. How can I
delete this key.
Thank you for your help

Hello, I regularly perform backups using Windows Backup Utility.
Today I needed to do a restore - only to find that the backup(s) are
useless. All I get from the Backup utility is an image of the Folder hiearchy
with no files in them. Despite this the size of the Backup file ...

I go to settings- control panel-  Add/Remove Programs.  After the screen is
populated with programs (many of which I have never seen before) there is no
REMOVE button.   I have used Add/Remove successfully in the past and never
seen this before.  Any clue as to the reason/cure?

wi have a application, that have to be updated sometimes.
Whe do this by copying the new EXE in to the application path.
On all Windows 2000 Workstations this update procedure works properly.
On many Windows XP Workstation the new EXE can`t be opened (An Error Message

I have pretty much filled disks where I wanted to apply EFS. When I do
so, each file gets the date of EFS application as the latest change
date. That's a real mess, since I really wanted to keep the original
dates e.g. of letters and other documents.