A number of our users are remote, and others have both a desktop and a
laptop (for use at home, don't ask!), and the only people that don't
have this problem are the office workers using an always connected
desktop.

I’ve been trying to find a central location of where the url locations of
patches for different languages and the md5 hash. Haven’t found such a
website at Microsoft but would appreciate anyone that could point me in the
right direction.

I wanna make a password for some folders in WindowsXP Professional SP2. Is
there a free and easy way to do that?

I am in a little predicament. An old tech who worked here put policies on 24
windows xp machines and now when problems arise I cant troubleshoot anything
because everything is locked down. I dont know if he used a third party
software or policies from windows xp. Also the admin ...

I have found out I cannot trust my son with my computer, so I want to
password protect my computer to keep anyone but myself from accessing it. I
don't feel guilty because he has a very nice computer of his own. He just
can't keep his hands off my computer.

When I log in to (the only) administrator account on XP home machine, I am
unable to use the power options or user account management. I created a new
account in safe mode and in normal mode, the new account has the same
problem.

Woke up and found my desktop was different, icons re-arranged, and new icons
on bottom tool-bar(microphone,speech tools,handwriting, drawing pad).  Try to
change my desktopimage back to original, but does not go.  all history in IE
is gone.  What's going on? Any help would be ...

How do I disable the Anonymous user account on my Windows XP Home system.
I was running AVZ scanner and it's log says that it is enabled.
thanks,
Shaun

I get 10 PCs connected through P2P network, all PCs contain shared folders,
does anyone have any suggestions on how to classify each PC access right to
each other? because some PCs would like to share files with a few computer
only.

I had a ahrd time with my 80 gig hard drive. So I tried using the recovery
console because the Windows XP  kept rebooting itself. The computer would go
through all the start ups. When it got to the OS, it just restarted. So I
thought there was something corrupted in one of the ...

Bear with me if this is a longer post.  I have a need to allow XP
machines in my domain to encrypt data via EFS but also allow the
domain admins to recover the data in a emergency.  We don't want to
institute an Enterprise CA.  So, I have created a cert and private key

I occasionally get a dialog box asking for the administrator's name and
password when I'm installing new software and under some other circumstances.
I'm the only person who uses this computer, and, at least as far as I know,
I was never asked to establish an administrator's ...

I'm trying to disable the write access for CD/DVD drive but still allow user
to read from the drive. Is there a way to do this in Windows XP?
Appreciate your advice :-)

I am creating a new GPO for Software restrictions.  I have set the default
rule to "Software will not run, regardless of the access rights of the user."
We are creating a desktop image that we know exactly what applications will
be allowed to run.  I figured this was a perfect ...

Hello;
Does any one know if there is a software that if I install it as a service,
it will change the administrator password everyday for example at 00:00 with
a generated password using the computer name and the date and maybe other