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bruce
Something weird has gone on with my computer. I'll preface my
statements with the fact that I'm highly technical, and do support on
AIX and IBM mainframes for a living, have more than a passing
knowledge of Windows and Linux, but do not do any real support of
Windows any more other than my own systems.
My wife and each of my children have an account on my machine, which
is named Daddy. I'm runing XP Home with SP2 applied. Most of the
accounts on the computer (unfortunately, are set up as Administrator
accounts) because of the silly things that XP Home won't let a limited
user do. I find two things odd about the directory structures under c:
\documents and settings\
First, on of my daughter's accounts if I try to look at her profile
folder on c:\documents and settings, I get a dialog that says c:
\documents and settings\annie is not accessible -- access is denied.
Meanwhile, I can look at any of the folders for any of the other users
on the system with no problems. Noone's my documents folder is linked
into the Shared Documents folder. I figured I should be able to look
at any folder on the system, since I'm set up as an administrator. I
just signed on to her account and note that her 'My Documents' folder
Sharing and Security properties has the 'Make this folder private'
radio box checked and it's grayed out.
Second, for a number the accounts on the system, there ae TWO profile
folders under the documents and settings. The first one is simply
named for the user (e.g. Olivia). The second one is named for the
user plus a period and the computer name (e.g. Olivia.DADDY). I just
signed on to my wife's account and looked at her 'my documents' folder
and find that it points to the one that is suffixed by the computer
name. I can access either folder from my account.
Can anyone shed some light on these issues?
statements with the fact that I'm highly technical, and do support on
AIX and IBM mainframes for a living, have more than a passing
knowledge of Windows and Linux, but do not do any real support of
Windows any more other than my own systems.
My wife and each of my children have an account on my machine, which
is named Daddy. I'm runing XP Home with SP2 applied. Most of the
accounts on the computer (unfortunately, are set up as Administrator
accounts) because of the silly things that XP Home won't let a limited
user do. I find two things odd about the directory structures under c:
\documents and settings\
First, on of my daughter's accounts if I try to look at her profile
folder on c:\documents and settings, I get a dialog that says c:
\documents and settings\annie is not accessible -- access is denied.
Meanwhile, I can look at any of the folders for any of the other users
on the system with no problems. Noone's my documents folder is linked
into the Shared Documents folder. I figured I should be able to look
at any folder on the system, since I'm set up as an administrator. I
just signed on to her account and note that her 'My Documents' folder
Sharing and Security properties has the 'Make this folder private'
radio box checked and it's grayed out.
Second, for a number the accounts on the system, there ae TWO profile
folders under the documents and settings. The first one is simply
named for the user (e.g. Olivia). The second one is named for the
user plus a period and the computer name (e.g. Olivia.DADDY). I just
signed on to my wife's account and looked at her 'my documents' folder
and find that it points to the one that is suffixed by the computer
name. I can access either folder from my account.
Can anyone shed some light on these issues?