Hi,
     i work for a public school and i'm having problems with some students.
It seems they love to boot from cd or from another partition, copy the SAM
file and crack within a few minutes with rainbow tables for example. And it's

I have been using my presario for the longest time and am now at the point
of wanting to wipe all the old data off the the laptop and do a clean install
using my xp disc, but problem is this computer does not stay on long enough
for me to boot using the disc as it shuts off as ...

I've got an unwanted program file that is running fake security alerts in an
attempt to get me to click through and buy a security protection product.  It
won't let me delete it giving me the message " Cannot delete icmtr.exe.
Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or ...

The amount of hotfixes is that big that a new service pack would be very much
appreciated. Does anybody know if MS is still thinking about SP3?

My colleagues are telling me there is a way to unlock a locked pc or log
into a pc as any user using the admin credentials. Apparantly you do not need
to know the users password, but just log in somehow using the administrator
password. I am not speaking of logging the user off ...

I have an account profile still listed under \Documents and Settings for an
account which I have deleted. No sign of the deleted account remains in
Computer Management, Windows Explorer (other than \Documents and Settings),
User Accounts, the Welcome screen, or even when using ...

Hi, can anyone tell how i can disable my windows firewall? I'm in a domain
behind group policy and i have an administrator account. What do i have to do
to the sbs2003 domain let me disable my firewall?
Tks for any help

I would like to secure a laptop. I would only like to give the laptop access
to the internet, so that it can be used to read mail on the internet. I don't
want the laptop to be able to access network drives on the LAN.

When trying to print a JPG file from Windows Explorer (Win XP Pro):
every time I try to print from the Photo Printing Wizard, I get a Data
Execution Prevention - Microsoft Windows error message that closes the
program.

happy thanksgiving

I'm tring to stop my teenage daughter setting up new accounts on my
computer, so she can't keep making herself an administator and going on
websites that I've "blocked."
Can I put a password on the computer before anyone logs on?

Hi all, my first post here...
I have a machine running Windows XP SP2; Administrators have no problems
using it. But non-admin users (incl. Power Users) get all COM ports (incl.
Bluetooth virtual ports), the LPT port and USB mass storage support disabled

Ok so i have these pop ups when i use my internet explorer. Only when im on
Internet explorer too. So i got this mcafee free thing for comcast and that
didnt fix it. Then i tried upgrading to the xpservice pack 2 to see if that
would help. Then i got windows defendor. I also ...

I was in the process of moving data to a new NAS i just purchased and needed
to change the permissions on a file.  I right clicked the file, went to
properties and noticed that for some strange reason i did not have a Security
tab.  The only tabs that show are 'General' and ...

I have a Server 2003 Standard with Active Directory, and I'm limiting 1
group to have the least amount of rights possible (ie. no right click, no
permissions to create shortcuts, no start menu contents).
The only problem I'm having is with the Programs folder in the start menu.