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drivesmecrazy wrote:
> It seems I am a victim of security maniac DRM.
> Never touch a running system! Had I only stuck to that! I have finally
> accepted to change from WIN 2000 pro to WIN XP pro, fully installed with SP3
> and all available updates. My own files reside on partition E, I do daily 1:1
> unpacked backups which are stored in M and monthly backups from M to a extern
> disk.
> I formatted partition C for the change, left E and M untouched and kept the
> same user name (with Admin rights).
>
> After the system change, I could not even open my own main folder! I changed
> properly its owner to Administrators/COMPUTERNAME and made it to be inherited
> by all subfolders and -files. Now I can read the folders and subfolders and
> all the files' names but not open any file, be it doc or xls or jpg or pdf or
> any of the CS2 files. Some of the programs don't even tell why and some say:
> write-protected.  But when I open the properties of the concerned file there
> is nowhere a check mark on write protection.
> By the way, some subfolders and files have to be kicked extra because they
> won't inherit rights from Daddy or Granddad. But it does not help much. Even
> with the whole flock belonging to the Administrators group I cannot open them.
> And the worst thing is - the copies behave in the same way, even on my
> extern disk.
> Some few of the files on my desktop and in my main folder are accessible - I
> don't know why.
> Is there anybody who can see the problem behind this behaviour?


Crossposted to a group with many clever folk (and some idiots!) to see
if anyone there can help/advise you!

HTH

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