Guest post from TechRepublic's 10 Things blog. There are dozens of guides out there that help you determine which services you can safely disable on your Windows XP desktop. Disabling unnecessary ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

I'm posting this here and in the programmers' forum, since it's both a programming issue and a system administration issue.<BR><BR>I want to create a batch script in Windows XP that will do the ...

I'm trying to find out if/how it's possible to disable WFP in XP for a specific group such as XP's built-in "Power Users" group. I want to end up with a group that has the same privileges as the ...

Symantec Corp. has told users of its consumer security products that they should disable a feature in the software before upgrading to Windows XP Service Pack 3, or risk crippling their computers. In ...