Re: XP Administrator but no security tabs

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From: Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\) (user_at_#notme.com)
Date: 05/11/04


Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 17:45:49 -0700

If you have XP Pro, open Explorer, go to Tools, select Folder Options, go to
the View tab, scroll to the bottom of the list, remove the check from "Use
Simple File Sharing," click apply and ok. Now right click the folder or
file in Explorer, select Security and Sharing.

If you have Home Edition, simple file sharing is hard wired into the system.
You'll have to perform the above from Safe Mode. Boot the system, start
tapping F8, when the menu appears, select Safe Mode and press enter. In
safe Mode, follow the above steps.

-- 
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
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<msxp@vortexdesign.com> wrote in message 
news:b0cf01c436ee$be3f6ac0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>  I just got my system and I cannot get a program to
> run.  Tech support says it is because I am not logged in
> as an administrator, but I am.  Problem is, even though I
> am logged in as an administrator,  I cannot see or access
> the security tabs that are supposed to be there after
> clicking on properties for any given file.  Why?  What
> specifically can I do to remedy this problem.  If I can't
> get this program running soon, I may be out of a job.
> Thanks in advance for any help. 


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