What is the best practice for installing patches that are not listed as
"Critical" or "Security" related?  Does Microsoft have an official stand on
this?
Some would say push them all to be safe and fix any potential issues.  On

I recently upgraded my computer from Win98 to Win2K. Afterwards, Win2K
and Win98 were on the same partition. I installed Service Pack 4, then
all other security updates, then IE 6 SP1.
Now I have this problem: Windows keeps telling me that there is one

I have a situation which, to date, no password protection/file
encryption/hiding software has been able to resolve... I am at a point
where I do not believe that there is actually a program to fit my
needs!!!

my yahoo account has been hack what shall i do

I am running a win2k AD domain and by default the password expiry
notification pops up 14 days before the password is due to expire.
I would like to change this to 20 days before the password is due to
expire.

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I just upgraded to the GPOE on my laptop from the old style group
policy mmc snap-in.  When I go to look for the logon scripts section, I
can't find it.  I am looking in User Configuration / Windows Settings.
All I see is Remote Installation Services.

I have a Windows 2000 Server. I have turned on Object Access auditing
for success and failure. For an entire disk drive I turned on success
and failure auditing for everyone for create files/write data, create
folders/append data, list folder/read data. I then go into a folder on

How can I find out the date when critical patches were installed on a Win2K
server?
TIA

I have a windows 2000 SBS server.  I wish to deny users the right to delete
folders/files and subfolders/subfiles from a network drive. I have given the
group 'everyone' access to just read and execute, list folder contents, read
and write permissions but it does not allow them ...

For normal server running in production, I would like to ask the following
questions that which one you will recommend.
1. Logon server as administrator or other name with administrator rights?
2. If the server is a member server, logon the domain network or local

i forget the password of win2000 pro. do i have any way without
formatting and reinstallin new os. and get my password againg

This is Varadarajam. I need to maintain some security in my network. I will
give the details follow.
I have 2003 Domain Controllers and 2000 Professionals and XP Professionals
as a client systems.

i have two addes or popups on my task bar that i can't get read of help

I am having a problem getting XP SP1 clients using NTLM v2 (AD domain
A) to authenticate (NT4 SP6 domain B) user credentials.  These
credentails are used to map a network drive to member servers in the
NT4 based domain.