I have just upgraded from XP home to XP professional as I wanted to use
remote access.
After using the 'quick upgrade' I have 3 serious issues, with IE, security
and windows installer.

   my FDD is behaving funny. it is constantly checking the FDD at regular
interval. it blinks when it tries to access the FDD. why does it do this.
  i have checked by running windows defender, Avast, Adware SE and SPybot
S&D but to no success. there might be some setting to ...

Ive tried every anti adware and virus/spyware remover i can think of, norton
mcafee pc guard, windows defender and more and yet they still carnt find the
adware, my computer is infested with ads popping up and is alot slower. I am
sure i have adware and spyware and no program is ...

This is a home computer, used in a Workgroup.  I set up my account first, as
a Computer Administrator.  Then I set up my wife's account, also as a
Computer Administrator.  I can use and access all folders and programs w/out
error.  My wife cannot.  When she tries to open c ...

I run a dual stack setup.
Assumption : ports 135 and/or 445 are needed for file sharing.
I want to be able to use file sharing over IPv4 on my local net, but
want to disable the ports 135, 445 (and 1026 too, the lsass.exe port)

I have been dealing with the problem of the grayed-out "Make this folder
private" checkbox (still working on it -- apparently my issues aren't quite
as easily solved as others who have claimed success).
With all of the excellent help and advice on this issue, I have never read

I am a consultant of a large company.  I take care of several workstations in
my office. They are all Windows XP SP2. All workstations are on the same
domain.
I have all the people that use the workstations and myself setup as local

I restarted my computer earlier, and when I went to type in my password, it
wouldn't except it. I didn't change it, so I don't know what the problem is.
And since I can't log on to that computer, there's no way I can get programs
or anything. I don't have a CD thing that I've read ...

Hi All,
When i right click on the folder the security & sharing options is not
coming. all the systems are connected with Domain & having WinXP SP2..
please help me out & what settings i have to configure to get it back.

I have the following problem. I develop a library and I deploy this
library with installshield. Users (colleagues) install it on their
computers. Until yesterday, all ran perfectly. Now the policies have
been changed, and the user cannot install anything on his computer.

I did have a HP computer with windows XP where I had 1 password protected
file created with Word Perfect Productivity Pak. My motherboard blew and I
now have an E-machine with Windows Office (home trial). I am unable to open
this file but I am able to open with Office Excel but ...

is there any guy who can tell me ho to recover my encrypted file a month ago

There is someone on my Network uses a software to spy on Network Members'
Conversations of Messenger. I think it called "IM Monitor MSN (or Yahoo)
Spy". How can I stop him from spying on my conversations? Is there an antispy
can help?

My Event log continuously fills up with failure audit events of this
type:
The Windows Firewall has detected an application listening for
incoming traffic.

Some of the folders in our file system contain sensitive financial
data. The file server is managed by our IT department. How do I
restrict the people in Domain Admins group (some of them are from IT
Department) from accessing sensitive data? If I remove read