Re: DVD disks driving me mad

"Rabbit" <Rabbit_is@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "pmj" <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> & i think *that's* where her main prob(s) lie!!!
>> Cos Sandra, like so many other people using WinXP (especially
>> WinXP Home) doesn't actually *use* a password to log on to her
>> windoze Account!
>
> I don't see the point.

The point is, that (with WinXP) it makes it *very* much easier to do
any sort of Sharing of Files & Folders (& Drives) & Printers etc,
on any sort of LAN (Local Area Network), which is what you have,
when you are using (as you are) a Router to Connect to the Internet -
it doesn't matter whether it uses WiFi or just a Cable (Ethernet)
Connection.

w98 did things a bit differently - but when WinXP is involved, then
if you don't have all the various User Accounts & Access Rights etc,
Set up properly, it can cause probs.

& yes, any form of Personal (Desktop) Firewall Software (either on
the actual Desktop PC or on the Laptop! - for these purposes the
description "Desktop Firewall" applies equally to a Laptop/Notebook
Computer!) can also block the Sharing stuff, but that's just a mnatter
of Setting up the righ tFirewall Rules to allow the stuff.

<snip>
>> Even though *all* WinXP Users (even if they don't think they do)
>> *do* actually have what windoze calls a "User Account" & even though
>> they *are* actually "Logging on" to it, when they Boot Up.
>> & even though they *do* have a Password on their User Account,
>> even if the PassWord is Blank.
>
> Eh yes well when I figure that out I might understand it :-)

Well, just read through it again?
:-)

It really is quite straightforwards...
Think about the processes (stages) that are involved, when you Switch
on the PC & Boot it Up.

Then try Opening TaskManager & looking at the "Users" Tab - see what
it says there.

& look at the System Properties - WinKey + Pause/Break, or RightClick
My Computer>Properties & Switch to the Advanced Tab.
Look in the Section labelled "User Profiles"
& Click [Settings...]

Those sort of thinsg (as well as the User Accounts Control Panel Applet
& the "userpasswords2" thing available from the Start>Run Box...

Start>Run userpasswords2 [OK]

Will all show you a fair bit of Information about the various User
Accounts that any WinXP Machine has.

Even if you don't *consciously* "Log on", when you start the Machine,
you *are* actually "Logging on", using your User Account to windoze.

So, to be able to access stuff on the Machine (especially from another
Machine), then it follows that you would *have* to supply the correct
UserName & passWord Details, doesn't it?

Otherwise *anybody*, anywhere in the world, (via the Internet) would
be able to access the Machine!

HTH

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pmj


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