I know that every time I turn on my computer with XP, there is data exchange between (I assume) Microsoft and the computer. I can see this by watching the activity in bytes received and...

Is there a way to limit downloads to a specific type? ie. just .pdf or .doc Can this be done in GPEDIT? Many thanks in advance.

Here is the situation: One of our computers at home has 4 users, each of which is registered as an administrator. (My wife and I, and our two kids.) My question is this: when I am logged on and...

I am having trouble finding the right place to post this. If press Start and go into Run and type in www. for example a list of websites come up. Other programs do as well. How can I clear this?

I have Windows XP Home edition and the users are not displaying on the Welcome Page. I have hit crtl-alt-del twice to access the administrator account, but cannot login. The username on the...

Disable DEP does not solve. This damn window keeps poping out. Is this a bug or sounds like a virus?

Can anyone please help. I added a new user yesterday along with the original administrator user. When I came back to my computer, the administrator was gone and I am locked out of my computer. The...

Hello, I have a laptop that needs to stay on my University's domain, and I just recently bought Microsoft's Wireless Intellimouse with Fingerprint Reader Combo. The fingerprint scanner works great...

Hey all, I'm sharing some folders on my XP machine, but we have an unsecure wireless router on the network and I don't want just anyone to be able to nuke my files. Thus, I would like to protect the...

I have a new ThinkPad (T30) and need to be able to lock my workstation when I am away from the computer for 5 - 10 minutes. I don't necessarily want to log off... I can bring up the onscreen...

I am using XP home edition with SP2 and I am the only user. How can I get my PC to go straight to desktop without having to click on the Computer Administrator icon when starting up?

I have recently scanned my computer with a virus checker and spyware remover and it was full of spyware, now my connection isn't running as smoothly as it used to and i can't seem to turn windows...

I dont know if this is the right place for this question, hopefully it is. After i login into my computer (Windows Xp Pro) i want a specific web page to load then about 30 or more seconds later i...

runing xp pro as a file and print server, how to protect the printer so i can allow 3 clients to access it and disallow the others?

In the task manager on startup a program, savservice.exe uses a lot of cpu's for about 15 min. Is it a microsoft program and what does it do?

Running (trying to run) a home lan linux based but with several winXP componenents. First off, my background is nearly all unix or linux so I don't really talk the talk when it comes to configuring...

hello. i've had a small problem on my business comp. I kept getting the blue screen of death (memory dump) when running adobe products and finally had to reinstall windows however now my profile...

Sorry about the long title but I really don't have a short way to explain this. On our domain, we have screen saver set to kick in after X minutes of inactivity. The screen saver is password...

I had a problem that I now know is not too uncommon: XP failed to load, reporting "...system32\config\system corrupt or missing" Since then, I tried to get the Windows CD to do a repair, but it...

Hello, Does anyone know why some of my (small office) PCs would be accessing this website from time to time. content.ztango.com.edgesuite.net Seems to have started fairly recently. Is there any...