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Network Connection Not Accessible After Particular Time Period
Posted on February 8th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Hi, I am Facing one problem for my Notebook on which OS installed is Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2. I can log in to my company domain but after particular time I get disconnected from...

Setting Promiscuous Mode on Ethernet Adapters
Posted on February 8th, 2006 | 2 Comments

I would like to find out if it is possible to grant user/group rights to enable promiscuous mode for the ethernet adapter on a PC. I currently need to allow specific users/groups the ability to do...

"User" cant print
Posted on February 8th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi! I Have installed all applications on my WIN XP Prof SP2 System as an admin first, then i switched this account to a user account. No I Cant print as a user. The printer is shared. Logged on as...

WINDOWS NT PASSWORD EXPIRATION
Posted on February 8th, 2006 | 4 Comments

USERS (WINDOWS XP COMPUTERS) ARE GETTING PASSWORD WILL EXPIRE MESSAGES. WE CANNOT CHANGE OUR NETWORK PASSWORD OPTIONS FROM OUR PCS, AND DO NOT KNOW HOW TO CHANGE THEM FROM THE SERVER (WINDOWS NT).

Event viewer message.
Posted on February 8th, 2006 | 0 Comments

This is the message I get in the Application folder on this one event: The description for Event ID (26) in Source (ISService) cannot be found. The local comuter may not have the necessary registry...

Shared Computer Toolkit - Software Restrictions
Posted on February 8th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Hello, I have a small problem with software restrictions... Is there any way to personalize which folders get restricted, and which don't? I have a program install in the C: drive, but not in the...

Administration Password
Posted on February 8th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Hi We have lost our administration password, and now we can't install new applications eg Broadband - is there anyway round this -- Freddie

permissions and rights for multiple users
Posted on February 8th, 2006 | 2 Comments

I am the unofficial network guy at the office. Everyone is on XP Pro and we are networked on a server running SBS2003. We have 15 users (clients) total. I have a couple of users who have a bad habit...

Terminal Service and Cmd.exe BackDoor Security
Posted on February 8th, 2006 | 3 Comments

My company actually is a Application Service Provider which enable our clients to logon to our systems through Terminal Servers to access our Application. Unfortunately, our Application need to have...

"You don't have permission...."
Posted on February 8th, 2006 | 3 Comments

When trying to set up a home network on my new machine and having used the wizard, when I try to find the other machine it hunts and then comes up with a box that says I don't have permission and I...

Shared Computer Toolkit:network printing
Posted on February 7th, 2006 | 1 Comments

I installed Shared Computer Toolkit, created a restriced user, configured recommended restrictions for shared public account. I want the shared public account to be able to print to a shared network...

Allow ONLY Domain Admin to login to XP
Posted on February 7th, 2006 | 10 Comments

We have a few new XP Pro machines on our network, but no people to use them, yet. What I'd like to do is set up the machines to only allow the domain administrator to log into each XP machine. (If...

Guest Account - Passwords
Posted on February 7th, 2006 | 6 Comments

Is it possible to add a password for the Guest Account in Windows XP Home ?

WinFixer 2006
Posted on February 7th, 2006 | 2 Comments

I do not know what this is. It has appeared on my laptop and told me I have several thousand files which are infected. The programme is difficult to delete. It is insisting that I can only fix the...

Cannot access "Documents" folder even as a Computer Administrator
Posted on February 7th, 2006 | 1 Comments

I am the owner of my laptop and, as such, signed in under a Computer Administrator account. However, I still cannot access my "Documents" folder. (Please note, I am speaking about the "Documents"...

Export x509v3 certificate and private key
Posted on February 7th, 2006 | 3 Comments

I've downloaded my x509v3 certificate but when I try to export with private key, the option is greyed out and i can't use certificate to sign e-mails. Windows XP Pro SP2 and IE 6.0 The same Widnows...

Getting "element not found" error when joining workstation to a do
Posted on February 7th, 2006 | 3 Comments

I am getting an error every time I try to join a workstation to my domain: The following error occured attempting to join the domain "element not found" I have verified the workstation is on the...

Deny access to CD writer
Posted on February 7th, 2006 | 3 Comments

HI, Is there a way I can block other users from using my CD writer? I dont want anyone taking away data from my PC. I am using XP Prof. Thanks Ramesh

User Account Disappeared....XP Home
Posted on February 7th, 2006 | 9 Comments

One of my user accounts have disappeared from the welcome screen and the user accounts control panel applet, I can't access it. It seems to have gone this way since I tried to make the account a...

Administrator Account for Non-XP Pro Machines
Posted on February 7th, 2006 | 7 Comments

Hi, I've been looking at some of these posts regarding the hidden administrator account and there seems to be only one way to rename the account. However in XP Home there is no such Group Policy...