PS>My thanks to Michael Grant and Jay Fuller, who were extremely helpful in
PS>solving my problem. Turns out Michael was correct, it was a permissions
PS>problem. Also, Jay led me to the solution.

Wow......you mean I did something? :-D

PS>The problem was that I couldn't del a couple of files in my temp fir after I
PS>had writen them to a CD.

I remember that well :)


PS>files.  Which brings me to a couple of questions. when I
logged in as
PS>phil, which had admin rights, why couldn't I del those files.
PS>It seems that although admin has full rights, it doesn't have rights for
PS>another admin account. Didn't realize that. Aslo, if I ever have any more of
PS>these troubles, do I have to go back to safe mode to get into Adimistrator
PS>account, I see quite a few folders and dir with this owner.(Administrator)

Also, a lot of times the rights are for the CREATOR/OWNER, which can be
some real fun if that creator is actually the SYSTEM.


PS>While I'm here, I'll get a few more questions squared away.  :) Here's the
PS>scenario. Two users on the computer, mine and my daughters. Now, Kazza and M
PS>which I don't need on my end, she uses quite a bit. How do I go about settin
PS>it up so if/when I logon to my account, I don't have to see this stuff and v
PS>versa with a lot of my fidonet stuff for her. Also, at startup I have my vir
PS>checker fired up and my firewall. Do I need these to
PS>also start in her account? Little confused with some of this, as it seems so
PS>programs don't want to try and start when it's already running som ewhere el
PS>Hope I'm making some sense.  :)  I'm in the process of buying Win XPPRO and
PS>want to get a better understanding before putting that puppy up.

Are you familiar with the registry?  If not, I'll be more spercific in
my next reply.

As for now, right click on the Start Menu with an account with
administrative privledges.  That should give you a menu of everyone's
start menus, including everyone's individual startup folders (which
controls, only partiaully, what is started automatically when the
computer starts).

Everything else is controlled via registry entries or various startup
files.....some of which are user spercific, and some of which are
machine spercific.

I'm still trying to find out how to add entries to various registry
files without having an "active" user logged on . ;(

Good Luck, and Merry Christmas. :)

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