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Go to http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/qfwin2000/chapter/ch12.html and look at the section called Apply restrictions through policies and rights.

See http://www.declude.com/Virus/vulnerability.htm which describes that message as meaning: "This vulnerability occurs when an E-mail contains a single 'CR' character within the E-mail headers (as opposed to a 'CR' followed by an 'LF', which is used to end a line in SMTP). Outlook can...

That does sound weird, but I'd think a power outage would be more likely to cause hardware problems than software problems. How have you ruled out hardware damage to one or more of your networking devices from a power surge?

Last year, I also had compatibility problems with NAV 2002 and Zone Alarm Pro in the same situation: trying to install NAV on a Win 2K PC that already had ZAPro on it. What finally worked (don't ask me why!) was to 1. uninstall both NAV and ZAPro, 2. install NAV, 3. then reinstall ZAPro...

Hi Brian - Let's back up a moment, because there seems to have been a series of problems. If so, its best to tackle them one at a time. Let me see if I've got the story right so far - you tell me if I've guessed wrong, OK? Also, I'll have some questions along the way - it will help if you give...

Win2k pro, OK. Do the error messages from your event logs look like the following? Event Type: Error Event Source: Userenv Event Category: None Event ID: 1000 Date: x/xx/2003 Time: xx:xx:xx AM User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: xxxxx Description: The Group Policy client-side extension Security...

Ah. That KB article applies to Win2000 server. Brian - Are you also running Windows 2000 server? If so, both of you might have better luck posting your questions in that forum. This forum is for the Win 2000 Pro operating system, which is what I'm most familiar with - wouldn't feel comfortable...

Can you give some more clues? Like, what kind of admin settings were you adjusting? Were they Desktop settings? Internet Explorer properties? It sounds like you're starting IE. Is the icon in My Documents that you click on an html file? Or do you get your problem no matter what program icon...

braddds - just discovered (finally) the listener on my port 1025: mstask.exe, the Windows Task Scheduler. If you're using Win2k pro boxes, I bet its the same for your system. If you don't need it, change the startup type of the Task Scheduler service from automatic to manual, then stop it. You...

Interesting set of posts. Think I see some common threads, based on my own experience and what I'm reading here: #1 Something in the various Windows OS grabs onto TCP port 1025 during startup. #2 The service using 1025 depends on the OS. That would explain why everyone is tracing it back to...

mcdunna77 posted a related question in this forum on how to view win2k assigned shortcut keys - then posted a reply on 3/29 saying you can find these assignments in the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HotKeys If you can find them there, then...

Port scans will tell you that the response was "open," "closed" or "filtered." A "filtered port" result is good: it means that the open-port request sent by the port scan got no reply - the request went into a black hole. A "closed port" response...

Agree with cod3x. Routers are good for blocking unwanted incoming traffic, but most of them don't question connections that are initiated by your internal machines. Software firewalls can be configured to monitor, audit and block both incoming and outgoing connections from the workstation...

Dredd - you can use Group Policy to get alot of what you're after, I think. Group Policy has a set of administrative templates that are alternatives to editing the registry directly. 1) Run gpedit.msc (you have to be logged on as an administrator) 2) Expand User Configuration, then expand...

Is the public PC formatted for NTFS? If it is, then you may not need any extra software or hardware, because with NTFS you can fine-tune file and folder permissions for different kinds of user groups. (And the OS is Win2k, right?)