New PC, now my head hurts.
 

New PC arrived today, what an absolute pain setting it up just right after four years on my old one. Several problems that I have managed to solve, one is proving a nuisance.
I burned my IE Favorites to a CD but when I try to import them into IE on my new PC I get a warning that I don't have administration rights to do so. PC is running XP Home, how do I get round this, I don't want to enter every one individually if I can help it.:confused:

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If you go to control panel > users> then you need to work out which user has administrator privileges. Once that's done log on as them and set yourself up with admin privileges. :)

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What new pc you got?

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this one
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I am set up as Administrator, it appears that I have full privileges, or do I need to do something else, I thought this was only needed on XP Pro????

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You could try booting into safe mode and logging in as "Administrator" and trying from there.

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Are you trying to import the favourites from the CD or are you moving them to the hard drive first? It might be that you need to shift them from the CD first as that could lead to complications.

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Would it not be possible say he is a admin on his new pc thats final but was a admin on his old pc but with a passworded account, of which on a ntfs partition would put a protection on his files?

Hence moving them to another HD/computer even if as admin he copied them to cd on his old pc, because his new pc has not got the same credentials as the old one it refuses access?

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Shouldn't be an issue to be honest, I copy files to CD and use them elsewhere all the time. The only problem would be NTFS encryption if it were in use I would think.
Iadom, can you not just transfer that favourites file to a shared folder and access it there?

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I don't think you can use NTFS on CDs.. The ISO 9660 format the CD uses doesn't allow file security to be set.

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Nope no NTFS on CD's and if you copy or move files onto a Non-NTFS location permissions would no longer apply as far as I can recall.

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Why not just try manually copying them (assuming they're just standard *.url files on your CD) into your %userprofile%\Favorites directory? Then, when you launch IE, they'll appear automagically (IE just enumerates your list of favourites according to what files it sees in that directory anyway... the importing favourites function within IE is not really rocket science ;) )

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If they were exported from IE on the old machine would that cause problems if he was using a different user name?

Try creating a new account on your new machine. Give it Administrator rights, and the same user name and password as you were using when you exported the file from the old machine.

Log in as that user and then try importing the files.

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You can export just as a file, it's not locked to the user account name. It just creates a standard file that you can then import again. Must be something going on with the machine that he is saving the faves list from. I would export the list and attach it to an email to myself ;) Done it before to get my list to different remote PCs lol

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Export them to Floppy and then Import them.:)

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I initially burnt them onto a CD, then transfered them to a folder on the new PC where they now sit with a lovely little Star icon but the darned thing won't let me import them. If I open the files they are all there and active.
No password protected accounts set up on either PC, when I bought the last PC four years ago which was also running XP Home, I had no problem importing them from an earlier Win 95 PC.

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Is there any way you can get the old and new PCs networked? Would solve a few problems you are suffering with the faves list. I'd try the export as a files, attach to email route too just in case if possible.

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One of motto's is, "if at first you don't succeed, try something else":)

Opened IE, Favorites and created a new folder, copied and pasted the old faves files in and bingo, now I only need to get my Outlook Express address book imported and I will be one happy bunny. I saved that as a csv file but it has changed itself into an Excel file and the new OE is not playing ball. Ah the joys of a new PC ( not):( ;) :D
I am going to put my old hard drive into the new PC, just need a power cable extension. As the new PC has a SATA drive and the old hard drive is an IDE device, am I correct in thinking that I can just plug the IDE cable into a spare slot on the new MB, and that Windows will just recognise it as another drive without me having to set it as a slave.??

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I'll take that as a yes then,;) :) :angel:

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If the cable is not already populated you should be fine, if there is anything on there then make sure you have your jumpers set right for the drive. Other than that it should be ok as long as you tell the bios to not boot from it lol :)

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It has its own cable to one IDE socket, the DVD drive is plugged into the other IDE socket via its own cable.

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Shouldn't be an issue then, jumper it as master since it's on it's own cable, check in bios to see if it's being picked up and if it is boot into windows and look in My computer or in Admin tools, computer management.

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Will do, thanks Paul and everyone else. New PC on Wednesday, new car yesterday... my brain is addled at the moment.;) :cool:

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I seem to recall having done the same thing with Win98 reinstalls a couple of years back, iadom, and finally discovered the reason was that IE wouldn't import a read-only file - which, of course, a file on a CD always is, and is still if you copy it to a hard drive. Just untick Read Only in file properties and that'll do it - IIRC.

If you have Excel installed, it will set .csv as one of its file associations, but this shouldn't prevent your address book importing it. That's one of the things I never liked about OE, that you can't export in the .ldif format, although you can import.

If you set cable select on any modern IDE drive and use it with an 80 wire cable (you can't get better than ATA33 with a 40 wire one), then you plug the blue plug into your mobo, and the cable will determine master and slave - the drive on the grey plug will be slave and that on the black plug will be master. This is the preferred method with 80 wire cables - YMMV.

HTH Patrick

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Some good stuff there, thanks. :tu:

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Virtually all shipshape and Bristol fashion now. :cool:

One little thing is puzzling me.
My original mouse is a wireless Microsoft Optical Mouse 2.0 which worked perfectly well.
The new PC came with a bog standard Microsoft wireless mouse & keyboard, they are as much use as a chocolate teapot, no matter what I tried the mouse was patchy and the keyboard completely unusable.
I have installed my MS Optical Mouse 2.0 and my old plug in keyboard and they work fine.
However when I power down the PC the keyboard 'Num Lock' light stays on all the time ?
Is this a feature of some motherboards and is it just there as an indication the PC is still connected to the mains.:confused:

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Might just be the different motherboard in the new pc still sending power to the keyboard. My mouse stays lit all the time when the PC is shutdown. Only goes off when I kill the power to the mobo.

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Another minor glitch.

PC has a Sony 16x Dual Layer +/- DVD Burner.
I can play music CD's have used Nero to burn downloaded music but if I try pre recorded DVD's I get the video but no sound. ?
Any suggestions.:dunce:

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What are you using to watch dvd's?

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Crossover them and use the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard ;)

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possible you have the sound output set to dolby 5.1 in the player, but don't have have your speakers/ soundcard setup, Iadom ?

<edit> try setting the player to use stereo sound - PowerDVD will not play 5.1 through my soundcard, for example, even though I have a 5.1 speaker set plugged in....(but an external DVD player works fine through the same speakers) :)

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Cannot see anywhere that speakers are set to 5.1.

ATM I am using basic speaker set up, one sub woofer and two small L+R speakers, which is playing music CD's perfectly.
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Windows Media Player 9

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any others available?

nero 6 has its own media player, for example?

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Funnily enough, using Media Player, if I go to Tools/Options/DVD then click on advanced it comes up with a Nero Options box. I have set my speakers to 2 speaker/stereo here but it has made no difference.
I will try the player in Nero and see how that goes.

At least I would if I could find it, give us a clue Gaz,:)

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Contacted Novatech via website last night, just had a reply, they are sending me a free copy of Power DVD .:D

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:cool:

ffr the nero media player is downloadable as the last file of the four available for updates to Nero6 on the ahead website - PowerDVD is better though (imo) :tu: