Good afternoon,
   Would someone explain to me what I am doing wrong with setting password
expiration on my Windows 2000 server?
   For this scenario lets assume I installed active directory and created

I've got a 2003 SP1 server with all of the latest updates ( as of today )
running as a Stand-Alone Certificate Authority.
When I attempt to request certificates for IIS servers, using the Web
Enrollment, I keep getting the following messages.

I'm using Win2000 and it's been shuting down automatically every 3-5 mins I
even tried to use sasser removal, that didn't help.
Can you please help me.

How can I restrict the power users from installing software on the system?
regards
M

I have a system that I have not used in a year or so, running 2000
professional.
It was a point of sale system with the OS installed by the vendor who is now
out of business.  

I have some laptop's and I want to activate EFS on all.
I can do this from Group Policy without physical access?
This laptops access network occasionally, when I need to install software or
...errors.

I need to either hide or disable an icon in the notification area in WIN 2k.
It doesnt matter if whole notification area is hidden / disabled, or if its
just the one icon. Is there a way to do this?
There seems to be a million and one ways in WIN XP, but this is for WIN 2k

Does windows 2000 professional maintain a log of everytime the computer was
turned on and who turned it on?  If so, what is the name of the log file and
where is it located?

I have a network at work where I would like to prevent everybody except
the Administrator from deleting folders from the FileServer.
I would like to allow access for everyone to delete individual files
within these folders but not the folders themselves.

 I just used netstat -an to see what are the open port on one of my
win2k system and I saw this strange open port 1028:
 TCP    0.0.0.0:1028           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
Using TCPview I saw that the port is used by system(8). And it's is

Lately my laptop has been very slow.  When I look at Task Manager is
see msgfix.exe is running multiple times.  When I try to kill it, it
won't let me even though I am logged on as "Administrator".  I also see
it listed more than once in the startup programs when I run 'msconfig'.

I have Windows 2000 AD. I turned on auditing for account logon
(success/failure). but since Monday suddenly no events were logged to the
event viewer in the section Security. All other events are registered so the
event viewer service is running. I checked the auditing event to ...

Hi, fail to open the local policy in Win2000 Server SP3.
Returned message saying cannot open with unknown error.
Any help will be much appreciated.

Is it possible to change the Domain Administrator account password using a
user with domain administration privileges?  (The computer is running Windows
2000 Server with active directory)

Is there any way to simply not allow any user (except the administrator user)
to install any software applications whatsoever?
Thanx.