Hi all, I'm trying to hide the control panel on several local stand alone XP Pro PC's in the office. All the user accounts are set up as Power Users. After a...

I was using my computer off-line when the phone rang and through my speakers I heard the modem pick-up & a computer/fax signal. (I have a Dell Win. XP SP-2,...

THE BACK STORY: Yesterday (1/23/2006) our company experienced a power outage that ultimately brought our network down in a not so graceful manner. Don't ask...

Hello, I'm using Windows XP Pro (SP2) and I'd like to encrypt a folder using the tool cipher.exe but using the credentials of a particular user different than...

I have XP Pro SP2. I want to limit my children from the ability to save music files and movie files on any of the drives on a local computer. However, I would...

Hi All, I administer a Win2K3 network with XP Pro workstations. For security reasons, I have had all the users change their passwords. Now, from time...

Hi, When I logged into my administrator account in my Dell Inspiron 9100, it gave me the error message "your account has been temporarily disabled". One time...

Does anyone have any experience using the "optional-file-permissions" security template included with the Windows XP Security...

I have a workgroup set up for my office, which is part of a larger network. How can I restrict who can join the workgroup?

Dear all, I just want to know how to start remote desktop as a startup service. Also I want to know why when trying to log in remotely using a user other than...

We run Win Server 2003 on 3 servers (1 for our domain controller/file/print/etc, the other 2 are Citrix). I’m having a bit of a security issue in the company...

I used to be internet-free. Now I have been on-line for a little over a year and I never had any anti-anything. My computer started getting retarted and...

I have a Win XP SP 2 machine that is part of a domain. I am an end user (not a sys admin). I am also a software developer and am having problems because...

does anyone know how to remove the SpyAxe program from Windows XP? I think its a worm. -- max out

For some reason I can't explain the Security Center service gets disabled and with it the Windows update is turned off (altough the Automatic Update service...

My Drive C (in Sony laptop VGN-A190 which has large capacity D drive but small capacity C drive) is a mess and although there is now more than 25% free (I have...

ok... sooo theres a little icon thats look like the windows security update. but it flashed to a red circle with an X in it. it keeps showing a bubble that...

hi everyone. I just noticed that I had a second local area connection attached to my computer. when I tried to get rid of it -- since I had no idea who...

I am working on a friend's computer that has been infected for some time (possibly with the RBOT-ACT trojan as well as other spyware). After cleaning it up as...

Your system is obviously Win XP SP2. However,can you explain what happened that you did a system restore. Give details. Panda_man -- Prevention is always...