Hi. The first username or user account name was a single letter, because I
just put a single letter during XP installation process. Then, when XP was
installed  I went and changed the user account name in "User Accounts" to a
phrase, a new user account name. Anyway, later I ...

I have hp pavillion laptop & purchased a hard drive for my docking base/ now
I want to copy my laptop hard drive to the new hard drive to access it with
another laptop/ hp suggested norton ghost/ for some weird reason anything
related to "norton" just comes up for 1 sec & is ...

A quick question surrounding file and printer sharing for my home pcs
(printer is hard connected to a Dell Inspirion 2400 XP Home Edition / SP3).
Home Networking Environment:
3 pcs-->two desktops and one laptop (all running XP Home w/SP2 or SP3).

I have a user that needs to go to a clients web-site.  The site requires a a
Certificate to be downloaded from the client's website and istalled.  I have
downloaded and installed 3 different certificate and none of them work.  I
get 'Page cannot be displayed.'

Useing Windows Media Player (2005) Xp Pro. SP2
Trying to open (C:) drive/documents and settings, shows DEP message windows
has closed program, followed by Windows Explorer, Error signature
EventType : BEX     P1 : explorer.exe     P2 : 6.0.2900.3156     P3 : 466fc588

I want to setup windows xp professional sp2 to prevent users from being able
to install any applications other than windows updates.  They still should be
able to use their flash drives, but not install any programs on the computer.
This includes programs that use windows ...

i have a WinXP Pro computer with two accounts, one is an administrator
account, another one is a limited account.
i want to set up a program so that it starts automatically when the limited
account logs in. however the program requires privilege of an administrator

we use WinXP SP2 and Win2003 Domain Controllers.
I am seaching a way to grant standard users of the "Users" group the right
to install USB devices such as memory sticks, mice, removable HDs, etc. As
long as the user has no admin rights a pop-up appears telling me to run the

I can log into my w2003 server (hosted elsewhere)
only in Windows rescue mode off the network
which means Regedit displays that other OS settings (X drive)
Can I bring up main registry somehow

We have a Windows XP Professional machine in a domain on which we're trying
to run a scheduled task as a domain account. We've added this domain acount
into a local group which is included in the "Log on as a batch job"
privilege. This privilege is assigned through group policy, ...

I have a family computer that had some stuff on it. It started to run
slowly so I decided to format the disk and re-install windows. I did a
"quick" format and start the process... but, suddenly I realized that
there were a bunch of important pictures I had formatted! !

One of my clients at a remote ws XP keeps getting this error
The connection was rejected. The SSL certificate is no longer valid. Please
contact your Citrix Administrator (SSL error 70.
How can i remove the old certificat from client xp pro.

It's the age old issue of laptop users wanting/needing admin. priveleges to
the local computer. We support a couple hundred laptops and have granted them
admin priveleges until recently. We have several developers that have a
business need to install/modify software on their ...

I just configured a student XP machine with a generic 'User' student account
and set it up so that they click on a 'student' icon (without password) to
login. These are standalone PCs that aren't on a domain...rather set to
'WORKGROUP'. For some odd reason, the Administrator icon ...

I was making some changes to a companies rights on a XP Home box and I set
the admin to a regular user/Limited Account. I wanted to prevent him from
installing Party Poker and other programs. However after the change I tried
to install the program and it did! How is that? What ...