Recently Windows Security Alerts always appear on system tray.
I right click it and select 'Open Security Centre' and tried to press 'Turn
on Automatic Updates'.
However, the Automatic Updates is still OFF.

My IE7 gives me a "add-ons blocked" pop-up and I can't make it not do
that.
When I go into "tools", the "manage add-ons" pick is greyed out.
How do I fix this ?

I have tried to make a soft link from a local directory on my computer to a
mapped network drive on a server using the Linkd software .  is this
possable in windows XP?
TIA

I used robocopy . e:\data /S /XO , getting access denied then ised
robocopy . e:\data /S /XO /ZB , i am getting no access right.
how to grant the access right to run the /ZB command ?
i am using windows xp , normal user right.

I forgot the method to allow restricted users to enable and disable
network connections in Windows XP Pro and I am not able to find it on
google. Could somebody point me to the web page which describes the
procedure?

I have downloaded xpsp3_5512.080413-2113_usa_x86fre_spcd from Microsoft
website and burn into CD. May I know how to install the SP3 to other PC with
this CD.
Regards,

I have a very slow computer and I am investigating Rundll32.exe. I found it
in the right places: C:\Windows\System32 and again in C:\Windows\Dllcache,
both with 33,280 bytes; and then again in c:\I386 but here with 11,075
bytes.

I am trying to upgrade a laptop with an oem mce 2004 system.  I have an older
version xp pro upgrade disk and when I try it, I get a message that the
installed version is newer than the one I am trying to install.  I
slipstreamed sp3 into the disk and now it is willing to make ...

I am having difficulty adding a few components to my computer.  I have XP
and had it up to SP3.  I have cleaned things by unistalling and removing
through Add/Remove.  Included in this were all the updates along the way
over the past five years.

has anyone come up with a way to disable the Internet Explorer
Enhanced Security through either a Global Policy GPO or by changing a
registry key which can be implemented as a custom GPO? If we want to
uninstall using ADD/REMOVE as suggested, I believe we will have to do

I have a Windows desktop that is joined to the domain, but it won't process
group policies.  Now before you refer me to the Group Policies group, I have
to mention that I've done some troubleshooting, and I've found that it's a
problem with the network card.  It comes on the ...

Hi, recently I made a big mistake and wanted to tell others so they would not
suffer the same fate I did.  I saw programs saying they could speed up my
computer and optimize performance by checking the registry and fixing
problems.  Programs such as Reg Cure and Spy Bot search ...

My laptop features are; winXP pro, SP3, intell Core 2, with 2.49GB of Ram and
I use ie7. I do have other browsers installed on my laptop, such as Mozilla
F.Fox and Safari from Apple. Lately ie7 has not been working for watching web
video's, from youTube, or Yahoo, or MSN. I ...

Have successfully reinstalled WinXP Home Edition.
Windows update gives me choices of many updates to install, including SP1
and Sp2.
Should these be installed, even if I intend to install SP3?

I have 2 cd-roms. According to the device manager these are working properly.
No exclaimation marks.
1. D: drive is standard cd-rom drive/F5B. Put disk in and get flashing
red/green light.