I have a new laptop and it has XP/Home on it.  I didn't want to put 
XP/pro on it right off [I do have a /pro license I can use for it if/when 
I need to] and so I thought I'd see what sort of mess MS has made for the 
/Home folk.  And the answer is: it is an *awful* mess.  In the 'run as' 
dropdown, the 'administrator' account doesn't even show up [I haven't 
tried the command-line runas yet]. As has been mentioned, the nice GUI to 
the ACLs stuff in the file system isn't there -- UGH: so I'm going to 
have to learn to mess with the 'CACLS' command-line tool and interpret 
all those cryptic letters and stuff [e.g., "cacls c:\program files" gets 
me : Everyone<OI><CI>F.  Can it be that the default protections for C: on 
/Home are 'everyone' [rather than only administrator]?   How odd [and 
depressing!!]  I can tell I'm going to have a *LOT* of fun [ahem!] 
getting this XP/HOme system set up properly.

  /Bernie\

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Bernie Cosell                     Fantasy Farm Fibers
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