I HAVE AT LEASE 300 PATCHES, HOT FIXES THAT ARE TAKING UP MASSIVE HARD DRIVE
SPACE. SOME ARE DATED BACK TO 2004. CAN I DELETE THEM WITHOUT SERIOUS
ALTERING MY PERFORMANCE. I HAVE XP PRO SP2. I,VE DELETED MANY PROGRAM AND I
STILL GET THE MESSAGE MY HARD DRIVE IS NEARLY FULL TO THE ...

need help asap. Installed winxp on my son's pc. everything was working
fine-had internet and email through a network with linksys router and dsl
modem. then installed service pack 1 and lost my network connection.  It
shows the connection and other computers on the network but ...

I have some problem on viewing pictures in my Private Folder. Private Folder
i mentioned is the softeware Microsoft provided before and don't support now.
My process is
1. copy files directly from Private Folder on PC A into a normal folder in

Dear experts,
I have installed Panda internet security on my computer (Windows xp Home
Edition sp 2) and I am experiencing some problems. The computer crashes in
the middle of a complete scan and a message appears on a blue screen saying

I have a small XP workgroup with 1 machine sharing out all our files. I would
like to prevent users from deleting files and folders on this machine. I have
created a user account with limited rights on the XP workstation with the
share. My users map to that share using the ...

My CD rom is MITSU&MI CR-48XCTE and it does not read a disc when inserted.  
The device manager and troubleshoot do not recognize a problem. (Drive F)
My DVD is IDE DVD-ROM16X  This does read the disc, but I can not download
anything to the disc.  It says I do not have permission ...

Hi I have a Windows 2000 Server domain with Windows XP Professional SP2
computers (and others) accessing it. Is there a way to disable the
multi-desktop feature of Windows XP? I would like if no matter which
credentials were used to login to the domain, the user was always ...

I've got two users in my organization with the same problem.  Windows XP SP2
boxes running behind a proxy server.  For hour-long periods during the
workday, the pop-up window to login to the proxy server begins showing up
every ten seconds or so, needless to say its VERY annoying ...

I am running Win XP Pro SP2.
I have 2 user accounts, one named "Bob" (administrator), and one (limited
user)
Periodically, when logging on my account, I enter my password and get a

Hello we have a computer that is setup on a network and each employee has to
hit control alt del. To log in with a user name and password to access the
computer. One of them is listed in the user accounts section; he was setup as
an administrator so I changed him to a user ...

ok the other day chkdsk ran and destroyed my security settings.It said
something on the lines of "security settings invalid restoring settings to
default"for every file on my computer.Which left my computer without a task
bar,run extremly slow,no access to user accounts,ie not ...

I run XP pro sp2 with all updates installed.
When I boot up I get a logon screen asking me for a password.
I don't use a password as I'm the only one using this computer.
How can I set it so that it doesn't atop and ask for a password and goes

does the following would help stopping users from using RDP to copy data to
local drive  at home machines?
[Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Terminal
Services \Client/Server data redirection]

Recently detected Malware/Spyware and removed using Spyware Doctor software.
However, when I use the Ctl-Alt-Delete function to access Task Manager I get
the message "Task Manager has been Disabled by your administrator".
I noted on another forum that this problem could be fixed ...

I have a windows xp sp2 workstation that was originally running in a
workgroup called WORKGROUP. Yesterday I joined the workstation to a domain
and now when the machine boots it comes up to the "Push Ctrl-Alt-Del to
login" screen as expected. However when I push CAD it does ...