TaoArcher

A user in WindowsXP is not identified by the actual text name of the user, but a security token that represents that user. When you reloaded and created a new user, the security identifier was re-created, and thus you arent the same user as before. To gain access to your files, log in as Administrator.....right click the folder and go to Security. Then click the advanced button, and go to owner....as Administrator you have permission to take ownership of every object on the local machine. Once you do that you can re-allocate permissions as you wish.

This is a really tough one....but hopefully someone can help me out or point me somewhere. One of the really cool things in Windows XP is the ability greatly customize a folder's view. Also, explorer will let you show additional properties of files, such as the bitrate, and IDv3 tag info for MP3 files. Heres my problem. My MP3 collection is in a fairly large folder structure. Now I can get each folder to save it's view for the next time that I open it....or I can specify a folder template to the root MP3 folder and have it work for all sub folders. Now the later example sounds like it would work perfectly, however the folder templates are few and the GUI has no way to to alter these templates, or add new ones. So what I'm trying to do is find where these templates are located so that I can write an application to add and edit these templates. I cant find them ANYWHERE. PLEASE someone...its killing me!

90% of computer problems happen between the keyboard and the chair.

Does the WindowsXP disk manager see it? If so, you need to just remove the partition and create a new one. If not, i dont know.

DOH! you're right, my mistake. The way around this is to map a drive as a different user. Map the drive with the account: \\computername\username Thats the easiest way other than using the everyone group...i'm just paranoid about that.

Go into "Computer Management" and then "Services and Applications" then "Services". Set the Computer Browser service to "manual"

Actually, microsoft announced some time back that you would not be able to upgrade from RC to XP final. That might have changed, but it was an announcement at one point.

I dont know for sure, but i'd say it definately will. They are still marketing XP home edition to the same market as WinME. They wouldnt shoot themsevles in the foot by disallowing those PCs from working on a corporate network.

For the Workgroup browsing......disable the "Computer Browser" service and reboot. That should fix that problem. (You dont want your own PC being the browser on a college network anyway) Of course that wont help you if you're having a basic connectivity problem. open up a command prompt (Start, Run, CMD.EXE) and type: IPCONFIG /all Make sure you have DNS servers set. Also check if your Network card is fully supported in WindowsXP, and make sure you dont have a second network connection that is configured as the primary. If you can give me more info i might be able to help you more, but from what you described, the problem could be ANYTHING.

Ok you just need to understand the basic way that NT security works. Unfortunately I looked quickly and dont have a link to a simple explaination. Basically the thing to do is create identical accounts on each computer, both with the same password. When you do that, it will pass the user info along to the other machine and it will check out ok. Incidentally, you can also create the same user names with different passwords, and it will prompt you for password only. Please though, for yourself, do NOT use "EVERYONE" for your shares, this opens up alot for potential hackers to exploit. Disable your "Guest" account, and create a simple group to put your existing user accounts in, and apply those permissions to your shares.