'Your Administrator. . . '

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Rambeau de Montigny

I see by many postings in this group that there are many problems with XP
and networking. I've had my share of struggling in my Home Network (XP +
W98SE).

What blazingly infuriates me is when you get that silly cop-out message 'Ask
your Administrator . . .', 'You should get this file from your
Administrator', etc etc

This is XP HOME repeat HOME Edition. In I'm sure about 99% cases, there just
ain't some all wise knowledgeable 'Administrator' around! Like me I'm sure
that the vast majority of Home XP owners (each of whom spent their
hard-earned money to enrich good Bill a dime or two more) are sole
owner/operators. Why not provide the actual answers/files which presumably
would be provided by the 'Administrator' . Another fairly obvious measure
would be for XP to have a start-up option with all appropriate settings and
defaults that caters to sole owner/operators.

It's taken be about 6 weeks of struggle, including incorporating 16 Mb of
very necessary patches etc, to get my network running fairly. but far from
perfectly, robustly and predictably.



And a) I still haven't got rid of that damn dog . . . .

Rick
 
The messages aren't entirely unfair. XP home still has the concept of
Administrators and Restricted Users. Restricted Users do have to ask their
"Administrators" to change some computer settings.

Of course I'm not sure which message you are referring to specifically.
 
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