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~BD~ <BoaterDave@hot.mail.co.uk> clouded the waters of pure thought
with news:yKydna64RYAZyDrWnZ2dnUVZ8qKdnZ2d@bt.com: 

> 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. 

Try:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421
&amp;sd=tech

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308419/

>>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?
>

http://forums.techarena.in/windows-xp-support/956238.htm

HTH


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