As long as you're the only user of your computer, this will
make no
difference ("All Users"=You).
If you did this on another machine with several users,
you'd make a mess.
XP was actually designed to be run with a limited account,
which would
have prevented this, or at least warned about it, but
limited accounts
are so cumbersome that I don't know anyone who uses them.
I have a beta copy of Vista, which has gone to an even worse
security
model, which has pops up for even the most minor of system
changes, and
is worse than XP. I see no compelling reason for anyone to
switch just yet.
> I know what you are saying, Hugh. And it's my lunacy
that has to have
> all programs listed in one place. So in
"Documents and Settings" I moved
> everything from "All Users" to
"Computer_Owner" with no apparent loss;
> it's just nice to know where everything is. There's
no Playboy material
> here but *periodically* I do keep certain files that I
should know
> better not to have; I keep them encrypt (or is it
encrypted?) using
> Cryptext ... and when Cryptext gets tired (happens when
resources are
> low), I have PMEncrypt as a backup (both excellent for
what they are
> supposed to do). Anyway, my wife is a totally non-user
of computers
> (she's the people-person in the family). As for the
g/f business,
> program, applet, whatever; that should be excellent for
whatever ails my
> own system ... that's when such a program is available
>
> So as a result of all the good advice from PCWorks,
Firefox is totally
> re-installed, the font size is improved, the
"logging on" problem is
> taken care of, Notepad+ is working fine ... all is well
with the
> computer. A few more questions later on.
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