[pchelpers] Re: Win XP favourites

In pre XP, 'C' owned the computer so many settings were in 'C' or
'c:\windows', however in XP many people can 'own' the computer so all those
settings are stored under their name.  It really does make a lot of things
simple once you understand that AND work with it.  I find people that still
make document folders on 'c:' which can really mess things up in a crunch.

Bob McLellan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Billyus Eximius" <billy.e@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> In win 98se, when you opened "explorer" and you looked down the side
window
> under folders, under "c" then windows, you'd find a folder marked with a
> star and called favourites, so I'sd simply drag and drop the favourites I
> had saved in another partition over and into the folder in C - windows.
> However, since I installed XP Pro, if I look in "c" windows,


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