how do i stop users on my home computer from installing programs.

How do I put my name on the system administrator, I just got a used computer
and I want to be the system administrator can someone help me please.

My CPU rebooted while I was in the bathroom. I lost unsaved data to Flash
drive. HELP ITS MY TERM PAPER AND I CANT FIND IT!!

At one time I had my laptop connected to the internet with an ethernet cable,
but for some time I've been running a wireless router (Linksys) in my home. I
continuously have an alert in the system tray that says a local area network
cable is disconnected. I can't seem to clear ...

I have what seems like a major problem to me, but will no doubt be easy for
you experts out there!
I have a movie file on my hard-drive which is 1.6 mega bits. I would like to
copy this to a disk and play it on my dvd player. The problem is I can only

Hello, I have a question.
In my folder D:\Mp3 I have a lot of other sub folders, but in a lot of
them, there is only 1 file(album art). I would like to delete them
because it's flooding my screen.

Since about the 15th of this month, I have had a lot of deletions of files
and folders (mainly shortcuts). I have tried to Unerase, but no luck. Quite a
few of these files are now beginning with ~$.... and when I recover and open
them they come up with a file conversion window.

Can someone tell me how to stop getting the "Customize Your Settings" tab
when I bring up IE7? I want IE 7 to go immediately to my home page but I
keep getting the ''runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx URL and the Customize Your
Settings tab. When I click on the home icon I get to my ...

Hey guys I need an experts opinion on how to get out of a self
inflicted PC disaster of the dumbest kind.
I was trying to set up my desktop to boot straight to desktop, as you
do, and came across something on the net that looked like it would

I get a 0% defragmentation on Disk volume. Then, I run the Check Disk
option(fix & recover sectors). Afterwards, when I defragment again, I get the
same report: volume defragmentation 0%.
I shall be gateful if someone would tell me what is going on in my disk and

The taskbar has dissapeared, auto-hide is on but I drag my mouse over the
spot and nothing. I tryed going to settings to change the taskbar options but
for some reason I cant open it. Everything I have attemted has failed, please
help.

Thanks Patti & Nas
I'm not familiar with ISO files and actually I'm not the one having the
problem.
It's my best friend Jerry.  I have an affectionate name for Jerry, I call

I recently cleaned a badly infested Windows XP Pro machine. The virus
scanner now reports clean, and nothing else is being ran other than the
standard windows processes and some application processes.
However, when I start Windows there is 2 iexplore.exe running, one taking

I am getting an error message involving winlogon.exe and logonui.exe with
the code "0x5dd1770e" listed as not being able to be written to memory.
I have run virus checks, registry scans and done searches online.  I have
two choices - OK or Cancel (to debug) so I click Cancel.  The ...

I've just installed a new and quite large hard disk and now that I've
got the space I'm trying to free up lots of room on my C: partition so
I can defrag the hard disk regularly and hopefully speed up my
machine.  Defrag requires about 15% spare space in order to work