Did you look at the "Tell me more about Remote Assistance " on the Remote Assistance page where you invite? (I have not used Remote assistance, just looked at the page and saw this info) Bluebelle ----- Original Message ----- From: "donbriggs" <donbriggs@xxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 9:35 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- New Thread - Security Settings ? > Hi Group. > I have Win XP Pro, 1.2 Gig Processor, 512 Meg Ram, 40 Gig Hard Drive > partitioned in 3 equal partitions, I live in Florida, I want to set up to > allow my son in Indianapolis to be able to access my computer and help me > with problems when needed. I have NS Anti Virus Beta, Zone Alarm, I Click > Maintenance, As-Subtract, Ad-Aware, AVG, Spyware Search and Destroy, > Spyware > Blaster all disabled. I have all the latest Windows updates including SP2. > Windows built in Firewall is disabled. > When I go to Help Support and click on ask for assistance, then click > on Ask a friend to connect to my computer for remote assistance I get a > dialog box stating that my systems setting DO NOT allow me to do this. > Everything is either turned of or disabled. Where else can I check. > HELPPPPPP? > Rocky de Dragon in NW Florida > > > -- > <Please delete this line and everything below.> > > To unsub or change your email settings: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > > To access our Archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ > //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > > For more info: > //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk > -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk