re: How do WINDOWS XP do copy/past in a file folder? Friday, October 17, 2008 at 6:10 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jacob6601 (2174 messages posted) Search using "NT AUTHORITY" -- basically it is the OS. MS does not want you working on your system. This behavior is expanded, to the point of being more than an annoyance, in vista. This article should get you to your files: How to take ownership of a file = http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421 Even with the new install, if you did not wipe .\windows and .\documents and settings, Ricer46 is probably right (malware). Scan more often than usual in case one of your files is infected. Your best bet is to offload your data and re-format. There is no need for the registry branch now. Written in response to: re: How do WINDOWS XP do copy/past in a file folder? (Julien: Friday, October 17, 2008 at 1:33 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] How do WINDOWS XP do copy/past in a file folder? (Julien: Tue, Oct 14, 2008, 4:33 pm) re: How do WINDOWS XP do copy/past in a file folder? (Rich Kurtz: Tue, Oct 14, 2008, 5:43 pm) re: How do WINDOWS XP do copy/past in a file folder? (Julien: Tue, Oct 14, 2008, 7:46 pm) re: How do WINDOWS XP do copy/past in a file folder? (PeterD: Tue, Oct 14, 2008, 9:04 pm) re: How do WINDOWS XP do copy/past in a file folder? (Julien: Tue, Oct 14, 2008, 10:35 pm) re: How do WINDOWS XP do copy/past in a file folder? (Gilzean: Wed, Oct 15, 2008, 3:59 am) re: How do WINDOWS XP do copy/past in a file folder? (Julien: Wed, Oct 15, 2008, 7:25 am) re: How do WINDOWS XP do copy/past in a file folder? (Ricer46: Wed, Oct 15, 2008, 7:18 am) re: How do WINDOWS XP do copy/past in a file folder? (Julien: Wed, Oct 15, 2008, 2:57 pm) re: How do WINDOWS XP do copy/past in a file folder? (Ricer46: Wed, Oct 15, 2008, 5:37 pm) re: How do WINDOWS XP do copy/past in a file folder? (Jacob6601: Wed, Oct 15, 2008, 9:27 pm) re: How do WINDOWS XP do copy/past in a file folder? (Ricer46: Thu, Oct 16, 2008, 12:02 am) re: How do WINDOWS XP do copy/past in a file folder? (Jacob6601: Thu, Oct 16, 2008, 7:21 am) re: How do WINDOWS XP do copy/past in a file folder? (Ricer46: Fri, Oct 17, 2008, 4:58 am) re: How do WINDOWS XP do copy/past in a file folder? (Julien: Fri, Oct 17, 2008, 1:33 am) re: How do WINDOWS XP do copy/past in a file folder? (Ricer46: Fri, Oct 17, 2008, 4:55 am) re: How do WINDOWS XP do copy/past in a file folder? (Jacob6601: Fri, Oct 17, 2008, 6:10 am) re: How do WINDOWS XP do copy/past in a file folder? (Julien: Fri, Oct 17, 2008, 2:47 pm) re: How do WINDOWS XP do copy/past in a file folder? (Jacob6601: Sat, Oct 18, 2008, 1:06 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum