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To: Larry S. who wrote (23886)	12/17/2001 5:26:32 PM
From: (Bob) Zumbrunnen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110655

There are a few minor annoyances I've found, but only minor so far. 1. By default, what passes for a "Control Panel" is cumbersome, at best. However, you can switch it to a "Classic" view, which I've done. 2. It's really insistent about security and permissions. You can make your hard drive shareable from the root directory, and allow everything, but if you connect to it across the network from another machine, you find your permissions very limited. There are certain directories it won't let you see without some reconfiguring, and there are still some I haven't figured out how to make modifiable by another machine. Basically, when I set permissions here I want it to loosey-goosey that if I wanted to reformat my daughter's hard drive from here, I could. She's having trouble running email because, no matter what I do, XP is denying her write access to a few files she needs (and they're not files I have open). I haven't worked hard on it lately, so I'm sure I'll eventually find a solution. 3. It insists on using a Paging File, despite my telling it not to. 1.5 gig of RAM would be enough to do away with the need for a paging file, I think. I'll probably set up a ram disk and point the paging file to it as well as IE's cache. Despite the machine being fairly new, my IE cache is already up to 12,736 files in 25 folders, totalling 326 meg. Hmmm... Checked daughter's machine. 6,932 files in 9 folders and 77 meg. That's a lot of cache. Since mine's got all the memory, maybe I'll make hers use a ram drive on my machine for IE caching, too. With halfway decent bandwidth, I don't need all this caching anyway. One of the cooler things is ICS (Internet Connection Sharing). On 98, I had to go through a special process to make a floppy to install in any machine I wanted sharing my internet connection so that IE would be configured for it. Once IE was configured, everything that needed net access could get through. With XP, however, I don't have to worry about any of that. Whichever machine has ICS enabled advertises itself on the network and the other machines see it and use it. I can have SI not respond because my satellite connection went dead, go to the internet machine, switch to modem, enable ICS on it, then go back to my machine and hit Reload, and SI comes right up. Sweet. As are so many other aspects of XP. I'm sold!