I have deployed a Group Policy for a certain subset of users that only allows
them to use Internet Explorer. To do so, I set Software Restriction with a
default setting of "Deny," with the only exception being IE. With basic
testing, it seems to work perfectly.

Ok.. I've been working on this for awhile now and haven't found that magical
bit of information I need... whatever it is.
Environment:  Windows 2003 Server, XP on the Desktop, users log into a domain.
- Note... I inheirited (sp?) this, so I don't know all the backstory

One of my clients has about 90 accounts using a common mandatory roaming
profile.
We added about 400 more accounts with the same mandatory profile at the
beginning of this school year.  Ever since about December (Windows Desktop

I am having problem finding a solution to an issue of capturing when a
locally cached credentials are out of sync with domain credentials. The user
is Windows 2003 using domain user account to access XP SP2 laptop when
offline.

I have mobile laptops that I need to apply a group policy to.  They will
never be on a domain.  I have checked the steady state utility and Doug
security console.  Neither of them give me the results I'm looking for.  I
have also found a MS KB article 293655 which applies to ...

A virus has caused the MRT command to somehow disable. It also disabled the
task manager. I have re-enabled the task manager and the virus is gone, but
MRT will not run. A the command line, msconfig runs fine, but when you type
MRT and hit enter nothing happens. XP Pro, all ...

Hi every body
I have encripted my personal folder in my personal user. Unfortunatly i had
forgotten the password. So that i had reset my password using admin user.
After that i could not open my folder. Please give idea to open all my folder

Hi I am asking this question for friend, she runs windows xp media center
edition. she wants to install router for broadband but when she put the
installation disk in she got a msg to say that she did not have administrator
capabilities. on right clicking my computer then ...

I work remotely. I typically login to my work domain on my laptop, even when
it is not on the network (WORK\a.user). A week or so ago, this login simply
failed: I had been logged in and was unable to log in a few hours later. I
received the same error one receives on a bad ...

I have a system crash and it was unable to boot anymore. I managed to
recover the files using a file recovery tool. However, my new XP
installation doesn't see the EFS encrypted files properly. Since I
didn't follow the MS KB to export the certificate/key beforehand, I am

There seems to be a bit of a choice when disabling the XP firewall using
group policeis between wether you want the Computer Browser service to crash
or if you want the firewall service to report that the LSASS service is
running and listening to a port (which is a bit silly as ...

how can I change an administrator profil?
I've bought a pc and I can't install some disk and other becaue I am not the
administrator

hi, i need to adjust my assigned drives for my external devices, bu
when i go to 'control panel/administrative tools/computer management
get the message that 'windows cannot open this file' 'compmgmt.msc'.
does anyone know how to fix this and what might have possible cause

I have a classroom with 20 computers which are a pain to maintain because
students sometimes uninstall/install software on them.  How can I prevent
this from happening?

On Windows 2000 and XP, what encryption level is used with EFS?
Also is possible to encrypt a folder and allow only particular named
users access to the files in the folder?