Though all of the DCs on our Windows2000 native-mode domain are updated with
the latest Service Packs and security patches, we continue to see the
behavior described in KB 274064.

Can the zotob (KB899588) patch be installed on a 2000 SP3 OS or must I
upgrade to SP4?

By default, any files & folders created by an Administrator ID will be owned
by the Local Administrator Group.
Is there a way to prevent this default behavior ? Or how do i know which
Administrator ID in the administrator group has created the files ?

I have developed a .NET windows application which uses a third party
database server.  The db server can be installed as a service but the user
which starts this service must be very restricted due to security reasons.  
So in the installation of my application I first create a ...

I want to allow a user to run a scheduled task on a server and be able to
view the task remotely without being a server administrator.Is this possible?

!!!Please Help!!!
The 'Impersonate a client after authentication' is a new Security Policy in
Win 2K SP4 and above.  If not granted, it doesn't allow programs a user runs
to impersonate themselves, as admins for example.  This is great and our

I recently removed a Win2k workstation from a domain after it had been
removed from the Network and the building it lived in and after removing the
domain and switching to a workgroup, the Administrator account no longer has
administrative privelages. The only two accounts in ...

I bought a couple of Dell Inspiron 7000 laptops from a company that
went out of biz.  Running 2000 Pro.    I am locked out of accessing
Windows since I don’t have the password.
I get to the "Welcome to Windows" screen.   Press Crtl -ALt - Delete.

Hello - here's a good one..
We have our finance team and their workstations located on the same floor as
a 3rd party company. As a result, we want to apply EFS to the finance
workstations which connect to our banks etc. Problem is, I can't seem to work

OK, here's one that I've not been able to figure out.  I had to reboot my DC  
and when I'm attempting to log back in my only option "as it would appear" is
to log in under my domain username and password.  After I perform a
Crtl-Alt-Delete and the login screen comes up, the ...

I am unable to use the content filtering service on a symantec firewall 360
which is connectected to my Windows server 2003/2000 network.  I contacted
symantec and was advised that my LAN DNS server needed to point to the
firewall.  I am not familiar with this.  Thanks for any ...

We've noticed that the MS Update Rollup 1 for W2K SP4 uninstalls the IE 6 SP1
icon.  This can prove problematic when there is reason to re-install IE 6.  I
have not seen anything in the Knowledgebase about this.  Is this a known
issue?  If so, how to resolve?

At some point in the past couple of months (don't know what happened)
something broke our Windows 2000 Pro installation's security and/or
registry.  Everything works normally, but when I plug in a new USB
device (a scanner or webcam, for example), I get the message "You do

Any secure practices would recommend you to
disable all the windows default shares -C$..Admin$
Of course, this is going to create problem for the system
administrator - this limit their ability to

We have a problem where the "Log on locally" entry in the Default
Domain GPO was messed with (an entry was put in without specifying
other users).  This was quickly fixed, as soon as we noticed users
being denied the right to log on.  However, I've got several users that