JK wrote: Your first step certainly should not be to reinstall Windows as suggested by the other poster. Instead, try a System Restore. Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>System...

Shaun wrote: There is no built-in Anonymous user account in Windows XP. Sounds like your computer has been compromised but you haven't provided enough information to get definitive answers. Without...

Eric wrote: It's not that the computers share files with one another; it's that the *user(s)* logged in to the remote computer(s) have the requisite permissions to access the specified shared...

System is Win XP Pro SP2, x64 Win XP Pro Sp2, x32 . After a recent set of updates on the 64 bit PC, I encountered Error 8x80072F8F = date/time sync error and a stop on updates. Following the...

Well, there are tools available for attacking the registry to obtain the password, but really it isn't necessary. You don't need to know what the old password is, just reset the administrator...

Hello, I have a need to grant non-administrator, non-power users rights to use Disk Management in order to format external SCSI drives from a proprietary solution on a regular basis. I've used...

Alas, it's the answer you don't want to hear: use an enterprise CA. Why do you not want to do this? -- Steve...

Jim -- Thx. I followed your suggestion and found that I am, indeed, apparently registered as the system administrator for this machine. Although I don't remember registering as the administrator,...

"nandito" <nandito.3926ze@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message news:nandito.3926ze@DoNotSpam.com... I had the same problem with Nero and another burning program (I forget which), so while there may be...

I've inherited a sticky situation and am hoping I could get an idea or two to try. I have a system that recently failed and was restored from backup recently. In the process of doing that, for...

I've had to put in these Additional Path Rules (as Unrestricted): *.lnk C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop Kam. "Jim" wrote:

Hi, Has anyone experience this anomaly using the Software Restriction Policy: We apply this GPO against all applications, then define many Allowed Path Rules where we allow software to be run from....

I'm not an expert at this, but here are 2 lines that a consultant provided as part of a script that generates a unique name for a log file: set unique=%date:~,-8%-%date:~+3,-5%-%date:~+6% set...

Try using these policies: 1. Within IE, disable the "File > Open" menu option. 2. Enable the "Allowed Windows Apps" policy, and populate that list with applications that you wish to allow. 3. Prevent...

Oh ye of little faith. :) I finally figured it out (after about 10 hours of research and work over two days), and I'm not sure what made the "eureka moment" pop into my head...but I'm going with...

Hello: I have a Windows XP Pro machine on the network that has a second data partition which apparently has ~(14) GB of data on it, but I cannot "see" any of it via Windows Explorer. I assume the...

"Kam" wrote: hidden/system file. -- --Will Take the dontspam out of the email to email me. (every even letter until spc.net)

Hi Stehpane, This is the vbscript, use and change as needed. ' Script is used in conjuction with CSICO VPN client, and setting the ' VPN client application launcher to run this script. ' Process,...

As I said in my initial response, it's been a while since I've had need to work with this procedure. And when I did, it only involved two computers and a few settings so there wasn't that great a...

Hi, I wrote some piece of code using the API "SetVolumeMountPoint" wich allow me to mount a volume wich looks like \\?\Volume{GUID} (I create myself this volume from my own driver) in an NTFS...