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Mr Jones
January 6th 04, 09:19 PM
HI all, I just reinstalled XP pro with only one account to begin with. The
name of the account is "Joe". Joe is the only user and he's the
administrator. After getting everything installed and working the way I
want, I added the other users. Two more users with limited accounts.

I notice a strange anomaly. If I create a limited user who's name is
alphabetically past "Joe", say "Jof", if you log on as "Jof" and open
"jof's" "my computer", the only folder available to jof is "shared
documents". Jof still can access his files, but his folder just isn't
displayed along with the shared documents folder. If I create a user that is
alphabetically before "Joe", say "Jod" and log on as "jod" and open jod's
"my computer", it's normal and jod can see both "shared documents" and
"jod's documents".

Joe can see both users files, the problem is only when you're logged on as
the user.

I've done extensive tests and this is consistent and only linked
alphabetically to the administrator account name. I've made the kids come up
with user names that are before mine to solve it in the short term, but I
sure hate flaky stuff going on and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Tim

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