I have loose my product key, I'm \running a Window XP professionnal and
wanted to download internet exploer 7. Whithout the key I am in trouble what
to do? Thanks.

I'd like to create a group in 2000/XP that basically mirrors the
Guests group.  Ideally I'd like to copy the Guests group directly, but
assuming that's not doable...
How do you determine the permissions that are assigned to the Guests

The global detailed Security Bulleting is given in:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx
I did find the following problems there.
I normally use Win 2K + SP4.

I have a requirement. In which after successful login into the system
administrator will get the banner which gives Last Login Date and
Time, Number of unsuccessful Login attempts since last successful
loginn and Location of worksation of last login.

I never install anything live from the web, such as "live updates". "live updates", etc.
When I install from the web, I first download and then install
while the cable is disconnected.
Is there a link where I can find all MS' patches for W2K to be downloaded

A college of mine has several computers in his network with Win2000
installed. A special stand alone computer is for internet access. So if he
receives/sends a file (via mail) he transfers it with a memory stick from
the internet pc to the respective workstation.  Kind of ...

Hi Roger,
I've seen some old posts from you in which you mention that the
Security Templates and Security Configuration and Analysis snap-ins
are fairly buggy.  I've already encountered one problem (I mentioned

I have XP Home on 2 computers.
Question
Is it possible to talk to a Microsoft representative on the telephone in
England

I have changed my user profile password and have restarted the computer only
to find out that what i changed my new password too does not work. I do
remember what half the password is and i believe i know it all but it will
not accept it so now i have no way in to my computer. Is ...

We got 3 Servers. one Domain controller (win2k), one Terminal Server 1
(win2k), and one Terminal Server 2 (w2k3).
This is my question:
I created a new user (A) in AD, with all permission for terminal services.

I am having problems accessing some web pages, and during investigating the
cause found that i cannot open Windows Firewall. I get the message "Due to
unidentified problem, Windows cannot display Windows Firewall settings".
I am running XP SP2 Home Edition with IE6, and have ...

Ok, so i'm pretty well educated in computers, and building them.  This is a
simple problem I have never run across before.  A few programs won't connect
to the web, morpheus and AIM 6.0, and I believe it's because of windows
firewall.  When I have attempted to disable windows ...

I,like others here, am unable to pull my defenses down enough to update
manually from M$oft so I now allow auto-update and then select which to
install after auto downloads.
CAn I assume that all cumulative security patches will be detected and

I have found a couple of workstations that have the process CID6LNCH.EXE
running on them.  It shows in the reg as
HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\current.  the file exists in the windows
directory.

Is there a patch for congress new 2007 daylight savings time change?
http://geography.about.com/cs/daylightsavings/a/dst.htm This could have
economic impact like y2k did. Is there a patch for windows
95/98/me/xp/2000/2003/etc. to handle new daylight savings time rules? are