Windows Backup is very poorly designed and implemented for automated use. I had to jump through hoops backwards to accomplish automated backups. In the interest of preserving your sanity, here is what I did.
My environment:

Windows XP Professional
Multiple Users
Selected Folders
Multiple Disks — C backing up to D, and vice-versa
Running as a regular user, without a password, [...]

Three more days to uninstall Symantec’s Norton Antivirus. According to a review that I was reading at Amazon the Norton Uninstall does not completely remove Norton.
The normal uninstall process will not remove all Symantec files from your computer (this has been a serious problem with Symantec from the beginning). In the case of Norton Anti-Virus [...]

There goes a few hours of my life that I’ll never get back.
I was doing some basic maintenance on my home desktop system and I had some extra time while the disk was defragmenting, so I decided to renew my subscription for Norton AntiVirus. The Live Update feature had been nagging me for a week [...]

I wanted to sync my Palm Tungsten T3 to my desktop. I wasn’t sure that I could do this. I have a Microsoft Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse and I have seen reports (also here) that the implementation of Bluetooth is broken on this product.
I got it working on my desktop following the instructions in [...]

How to use the net user command to change the user password at a Windows command prompt. Only administrators can change domain passwords at the Windows command prompt. To change a user’s password at the command prompt, log on as an administrator and type: “net user * /domain” (without the quotation marks) When you [...]