Was reading the post on "firewalls & spying" when you mentioned something about Windows firewall problems & login acc's.I had a bad experience of not being able to logon to my computer after stuffing around with the login settings.So am not so keen to tamper with the settings unguided. Would you be able to write a step by step procedure to create a safe logon account rather than an admin acc? Currently I can bypass the logon screen forced upon me by sp2 by highlighting my acc & deselecting the user must logon box.Is this the kind of account you are talking about? i.e not admin account?