I've gotten this update from Microsoft repeatedly and the Update Icon will
NOT leave my task bar! Even though I've 'installed' the update (more than
once) the icon remains. I can't find any way to get rid of it and don't know
if this update has actually installed or not.

Dear Expert :
When I remote to change user group from administrator  to power user
Permission will activate after they logout / login or reboot his computer
Any command / method that system admin change their group permission and

My friendly, fellow posters. I am very, very sorry for all the problems that
my stupidity has been causing here. I have been outing, you say?, a dirty,
lying REAL TROLL Mick Murphy <RT>, and his brother, Fake PaulShit, Paul
(Shite) Montgomery, also TROLL.

My XP Pro is in  a domain. I created a user account and group on the local
machine and grand proper permission to a shared folder. However I get access
deny error message when I tried to open it from other machine on the network,
but I can acccess it if I use domain account. It ...

We've used a security template to set the passwords to never expire and also
used the 'net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited' command.  But when we go through
computer management to see the properties of a user, the checkbox is not
checked.  We set the computer date to a few years ...

I am trying to boot from the CD since my laptop crashed, and it is asking for
an adminstrator password.  Whenever I logged on to my laptop, I never entered
a password, just hit enter.  What is the password?

My corporate VPN requires a Smart Card (USB security token) for remote
access.  This works fine.  The problem is that this card is only intended for
VPN, and doesn't work for Windows Logon or domain authentication.
If I leave the Smart Card inserted after the VPN starts, the first ...

While the technology industry is not immune to the troubles facing the
U.S economy, it is positioned to weather a
downturn, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a talk last week in
Santa Clara.

Good evening.  My daughter is off to college with her new laptop and I now
have a problem.  I have her old desk top here and wanted to give it to my
son.  Well, I am the administrator and forgot my password.  She gave me her
password but she is just a user as I limited her ...

Hi Team,
I desparately need your help as i need access to some important files.  This
is what has happened so far:
I installed Norton 360 v2 a few days and rebooted my machine.  When i

I have a Windows Server 2003 file server that is a domain member.  Whenever a
non-domain Windows XP workstation attempts to connect to the server (via
Run->'\\address'), the client sits for about 90 seconds before a logon screen
appears.  Examining the server's security log, I ...

I am trying to rescue some music files on an old hard drive from a
friend's computer that doesn't exist anymore.  I've placed the hard
drive in an enclosure and am able to see all the files.
Unfortunately, I cannot access his documents because he must have had

I have about 35 computers on my domaim.
They are all XP Pro and the file servers are Windows Server 2003.
Currently each computer downloads its own updates and the users are prompted
to install them.

OS = XP Home Edition
Scheduled Task: run at startup
Content of Tast: {utility_xyz loads/connects a local web page}
Outcome: scheduled task runs (by looking at its status), however, log

Good evening....My daughter is off to college with a new laptop and I wanted
to use her old desk top for my son now that he is in need for middle school.  
However, I am the admnistrator and can not remember my password.  My daughter
gave me her password but she is only a user and ...