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Well, finally, it was just simple as it was ruining the previous install of win... Just had to go to control panel>folder options>view and deactivate the simple file sharing...then, right clicking on D, and going to properties>security I could restore all of the permissions (copying them from the security tab of C:). The thing is, I thought that installing a new copy of the OS, everything, including permissions, would return to default, something that didn't happened...so it seems that permissions are OS independent, they go with the partition... Thanks to anyone of you that answered to my topic! See you next time, for more messed-up-OS questions and answers!

after this thing happened to me a few days ago, and after trying recovery console and repair install, I had to format my partition were I usually put the OS. The other partition ist the data one, and is where all my data lives, years now. A few hours ago I decided to format the OS partition as this seemd the only solution to start using my pc again. Now Windows Xp is running again BUT... the data partition is not accessible, and in the properties it says that the file system is raw, and gives me an inexistent partition of 0 bytes capacity! this is not true, as the windows xp setup itself, right before the installation showed me that the Data partition is in the NTFS file system, with the right capacity, and the right used and free space! After I saw I could not access D, I rebooted from the xp install CD to see if something had changed during installation, but no, nothing changed, the xp setup window keeps telling me that my data is still in the hard drive, and still I cannot access D. Messing around with the backup utility of xp I can see all of my files that are in the data partition, but before going through that long and boring process called back up, is there any other quicker solution, for making this partition accessible again? thank you, hope this time somebody can help me

Hi, yesterday I had the really bad idea to change security permissions to my 2 partition, the one were windows lives and the one with my data. What I did was to delete all users and groups (administrators, system, creator owner and everything was there) and add only my account (which is an administrator one), and give full control to it, thinking that this could provide more security to my system. Which maybe does, but when I rebooted, windows would show me the message autochk program not found - skipping autocheck and would reboot in an endless loop. Now, it happens that my cd-rom drive just a few days ago stopped functioning, so I cannot use a windows xp installation cd to try a repair install, so the only thing I could do was to make 6 windows xp startup diskettes (which I did) and use the recovery console, which I did also. I run through the "loading files process", then at "welcome to setup pressed r, entered the recovery console, pressed 1 to choose the windows installation, entered the administrator password, which for some reason had changed to "nothing" (that is, i just pressed enter, after some attempts where I was entering the "right" admin password) and that's it, I was in...AND NOW? what can I do to make things work? I tried the attrib +s C: command to give back system the permission to access files (I think that windows won't boot exactly because I deleted the SYSTEM user from security permissions, am I right?), then I exited the recovery console, but nothing seems to happened, the same error message shows up again and again... Please help me, is there any chance to fix it with the recovery console? Thank you

Hi, I made some new tweaks to my win xp some days ago( mostly services disabling and registry tweaks), and now, although I can connect to the Internet (wirelessly through my router), the windows icon that normally shows up in the system tray while acquiring the network address doesn't disappear when connected, it stays there for a lot of time and only after a lot of minutes it goes away, although the option "show icon in notification area when connected" is deselected; only selecting it, and deselecting it disappear. How can I get rid of this icon, is there a registry key i can delete to make it not show up? Thank you

I'm not talking of deleting the temp folder itself but being able to delete folders that are contained in it; with that code it only deletes files, not folders. This is not something i do for an unattended setup, it's meant to be just a little...let's say application that should let me delete all the files that are stored in these folders, just with one click, it's just to avoid going in every folder and delete the content. Killing the explorer process lets me delete files that may be in use by other programs. Thank you for your help.

It seems like the string that refers to the temp folder deletes the content of the correct temp folder (the one in my own profile), but it delets only files, not folders, even without the *.* is it something that has to do with the DEL command? Now, the other strings search for files to delete in the wrong folders, as i said in the Administrator folder, but I'm not logged in as administrator, i' logged in as "noname", I do have the Administrator rights, but I'not logged in with that profile. Also, i substituted %UserProfile% with "noname" but the same error occurs.... Could you please post a syntax-correct cleanup.cmd for the folders I specified and that you know it works on your pc, that deletes not only files but also folders? I'm not pretending too much, am I? Thanks

Hello everybody, A question about my cleanup.cmd that seems not able to do its job. First i wrote these lines: taskkill /f /im explorer.exe RD /S/q "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files" RD /S/q "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\History" RD /S/q "%UserProfile%\Recent" DEL /S/q "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Temp\*.*" start explorer.exe taken from http://forums.techguy.org/windows-nt-2000-xp/42 4545-windows-xp-cache-cleanup.html://http://forums.techguy.org/windows-n...he-cleanup.html://http://forums.techguy.org/windows-n...he-cleanup.html://http://forums.techguy.org/windows-n...he-cleanup.html://http://forums.techguy.org/windows-n...he-cleanup.html://http://forums.techguy.org/windows-n...he-cleanup.html://http://forums.techguy.org/windows-n...he-cleanup.html but it didn't work. I finally found out that it doesn't delete anything because it goes in the wrong profile, to be more precise, it goes in the Administrator profile. I mean, it goes to C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings and so on...why does it go this way even if i specify the correct path? Thank you

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Hi everyone, I have one simple question, i've asked it in other forums but it seems like nobody could/want answer it, hope you can help me! I'm a sound engineer wannabe, i'm looking forward to create the perfect unattended version of winxp to work with audio applications; as probably you already know, audio apps are really heavy, and demand a lot of memory and processing power, so what i really need is to send to the thashcan everything is not strictly related with the sability of the OS. So with this version i'm not gonna connect to the internet (actually i'm gonna disable everything has to do with connection...network card, services, even uninstall IE messenger and whatever), and i was wondering if i just could avoid integrating the SP2 and the hotfixes, as most of these patches are security-related ones. So, what do i have to do? Integrate or not integrate? Does anyone know if not installing the updates could cause stability issues to the OS? Should i just install only some of the patches? But which ones? Please help me, it's really important!! Thanks Bye