Windows system restore directory seems to be something like:
C:\System Volume Information\_restore{63DEA02-B75E-4B3C-B933-34564556434332}>
Why is name like this?  Is the part of restore signifying a globally unique
number?  Why?

Hello ..
My company would like to have an offline Windows Server 2003 standalone
Certificate Authority. This CA would issue SSL certificates for an
Extranet. Users would either be sent a certificate to install or a tech

This is a bizzare problem.  Our users and computers that are part of the
domain but are on a different subnet can no longer access shared folders on
one particular server.  Group membership and folder permissions have not
changed.  The users can access the folders if they log on ...

Since about 1 week (probably after an update), I can no longer use this
program normally. Everytime I open it, it acts as if it is the 1st time and I
have to rechoose all the settings. I then run a scan and the next time it
starts all over, asking for settings and telling me I ...

We've used SUS for quite some time now to distribute updates. I am in the
process of moving to WSUS and for the most part things seem to be working
well. One nice feature is the ability to see if a user has taken on the
patches. I know for a fact that currently many users blow ...

I have several "unrecognized access" attempts on my wireless router activity
log. How do I identify where these port addresses are coming from?

Hello, can anyone point me in the right direction as to how to create an
IPSEC policy using vbscript/batch file. I would like to automate this
proceedure for several remote sites. The remote sites have servers that will
need to have data synced via robocopy with a central backup ...

Not a secuirty question. But other groups I looked at are not really active.
I am interested in learning how to measure program performance in
Windows. Could you refer me to some links?  I want to see if API X is better
than Y.

I just got done ridding my computer of an onslaught of spyware and worms and
various trojans. I've gotten all of the infected files out of the registry...
all except one.  Whenever I try to delete it, I get an error message saying I
cant. Can anyone help me out? Thanks ^_^

Hey everyone, recently i have noticed that each time i turn on my laptop it
tells me there is security updates to be installed and begins to do so...
although everysingle time it does this it results in saying that the update
could not be installed?

I have the service desk here and they are unable to access the "show all
processes from all users" in task manager.  The only users who I have been
able to give this to are local admins on pc and domain admins.  I want to
give them the access to monitor the processes and kill ...

We are having serious grief with our user profiles. We want to achive
the following:
user can both access their roaming profile and have changes written back
administrators can access all roamin profiles stored on server

Short Explanation:
NT4 Server
Workgroup
Local password 9 characters

How does one restore file or folder permissions after an upgrade completely?
I used showaccs.exe to download file permissions before a server rebuild.
Now I need to restore the permissions of all the files to their state before
the rebuild.  I was able to do for many, but some I'm ...

Does anyone know of any third party apps that I can use to make different
password policies in a single domain?