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I want to get rid of Microsoft Office 2007 and restore my emails back to my school webmail. How do I do that?

Tuesday 15 June 2010 @ 10:45 am
microsoft


I want to delete Microsoft Office 2007. I tried using it, but I just do not like it. I want to go back to using my school’s webmail service. I can access that from anywhere. How do I go about getting rid of Microsoft Outlook 2007 and thus restoring emails to my school account?




How do i remove all traces of microsoft security essentials from windows xp?

Monday 3 May 2010 @ 7:29 pm
microsoft


So I had microsoft security essentials then i uninstalled and it still appears in the security center. I ran registry cleaners, and dug through the computer and registry, and removed all traces but the security center still thinks it is on my computer. And to make matters worse now i can’t install windows defender. Something about microsoft cliet protection being on?

-Thanx!

P.S. I now have avira and i can’t install microsoft security essentials again.




Do I need to upgrade my computer security?

Monday 8 March 2010 @ 4:18 am
computer upgrade


For a few years now, I’ve had a padlock on my computer that I’ve kept locked at nights and I regularly wash the internet cables with Lysol. But people have told me that you constantly need to upgrade your security solutions, so can you offer me any advice?




How can i give my kids access to certain games on Win XP?

Saturday 12 December 2009 @ 4:43 am
win xp


Hi! I have two computers at home. One for work and one for the kids. The computers that the kids use have their own accounts, but they have limited rights (they cannot install, uninstall programs, etc). Occasionally, I find myself buying games for them that WON’T run from their accounts because the game requires “admin rights” to be played. Hence I have to use a “Run As” command so that I can open the games as administrator. Is there a way that I can give access to those games so that they can run them automatically, but without giving the kids full admin rights to the PC? the machine is running Windows XP SP2. Thanks!




How can i remove the password check at Win XP logon?

Friday 27 November 2009 @ 9:12 am
win xp


My dumb XP SP2 is just irking me out.I’ve only one user and no other person uses my PC so there is just one user.I did set no login check a while ago but now it asks for the pw which is nothing but spaces.I don’t that pw check how can i remove it?

Last time I had the same problem and I did some changes in the regedit and it was solved.I can’t figure it out.Please help!




Does Win XP have a log explaining why it reset and/or crashed?

Sunday 1 November 2009 @ 3:47 pm
win xp


Every so often I leave my kid to use my Win XP desktop and every so often it resets to bootup. He won’t tell me the reason but I suspect it’s because he presses the reset button. Is there anyway of proving this? Does Win XP keep a log indicating how and why it reset and/or crashed?
what log in the event viewer will specifically tell me if the reset button was pressed? as opposed to the system crashing by itself?




How to reload WinXP when the pc says it has a newer version?

Wednesday 9 September 2009 @ 12:00 am
winxp


I tried to reload WinXP professional with the original cd (pre SP1 version), my pc been updated with sp2. It won’t install and the message was the pc already has a newer version installed.
How do you get it to reinstall. I don’t want to delete all updates?




How do I unlock a WinXP ‘My Documents’ folder from a profile that is on the hd of a now dead computer?

Wednesday 9 September 2009 @ 12:00 am
winxp


I had two WinXP machines. 1 died so I turned its hard drive into an external hard drive for my other machine which still works fine and is still running XP. On the dead computer I had a user profile set up that I logged in under and was not the administrator, though I believe it had administrator privileges. This was the profile I normally used so all of the documents and pictures I kept on that computer were in that user profile’s ‘documents’ folder. On the good computer I use the administrator profile all the time but I cannot access anything inside the user profile on the dead computer’s hard drive. Whenever I try to go into the ‘My Documents’ folder, for instance, I get: “G:\Document and Settings\Profile Name\My Documents is not accessible. Access is denied.”

I even tried creating a profile on the good computer using the dead computer’s Profile Name and logging in under that, but that didn’t work. Thanks for the help.
I’ve tried messing with the ’sharing and security’ properties and every change I attempt to make has been met with an Access is denied message similar to the one I posted above. I’ve also tried making simpler properties changes like making the folder not Read Only and once again I get Access is denied. I have no idea how to edit the user profile that is associated with the folder, if that’s possible as the second answerer suggests.




Windows XP - Control Panel has gone away. Come someone tell me how to get it back?

Saturday 22 August 2009 @ 9:02 pm
xp control panel


I’m not sure how to resore the Control Panel or why it went away. When I click on Set Program Access and Defaults, it tells me restrictions are in effect on this computer. It’s the only user and I’m not sure how to go about resetting access. Can anyone help me?




how to block windows restore feature?

Wednesday 19 August 2009 @ 2:13 pm
windows restore


I need to block my kids from going to adult websites. I have tried programs that do work however if they restore the computer thay can take off these programs and get around it. Is there anyway i can block access to the windows restore feature?




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