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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
>
>


Thanks for doing that Woolfus. :)

Others have commented previously that your links are often broken. I 
thought perhaps this was just a bit of fun, yet even here your 308421 
link is br0ked! This one should 'work':-

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

Your 308418 goes, for me, to a 'page not found' - does it work for you?

Regards
-- 
Dave