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?

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!

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!

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?

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?

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.

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?

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?

so I have windows 7 build 7100 and im trying to share my D drive to my xp but when i try access my windows 7 machine its asking me for a permission (username and password which i dont have any) but I can see my XP shared foleders from my win7 machine. am i doing something wrong?

how to lock it? and unlock it also.