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Raistlin · 01-04-2005, 23:40

when it's actually been them all along?

Ok, two gripes this evening, just thought I'd share these little gems hopefully to stop somebody else making the same mistake that I did.....

My Laptop came with XP installed on a FAT32 partition, according to the Manufacturers this is to make life easier for customers as they don't have to worry about all the associated security gubbins that comes with NTFS.

That's ok, thinks I, I can just use Convert c: /FS:NTFS and that will convert my drive to NTFS. I did the responsible thing and backed up all of my data, files etc, to the Server and ploughed straight ahead.....

That's when things went to Hell in a handbag.

The reason I wanted to do this was to enable group security settings, user groups, file permissions etc..... Shame that Microsoft don't trust users with XP Home installed to be able to handle this sort of technology. You see it turns out that this feature isn't available in XP Home (but I'm sure you already knew that anyway), I never thought to check - it never occured to me that they would have removed the feature for any reason.
So, having discovered (to my absolute delight) that the whole excersize was pointless as I still couldn't do what I wanted to do I then get the next exciting revelation. For some reason, the conversion process has destroyed the programs list of my Firewall (ZA). None of the programs that were previously listed in the access list are in there anymore, the whole thing needs setting up again.
So, now I'm getting alerts from ZA left right and center. It's then that I realise that the system has slowed to a snails pace and is all but non-responsive. I finally track down the cause, you'll like this, for some reason the conversion to NTFS has triggered my AV software and caused it to do a complete sweep of the entire partition.......Deep joy..... Cue much waiting and banging of head against desk.....

Like I said, just wanted to share

I'm off to blow up MS HQ in the states this weekend, anybody want to lend me the air fare

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FFS just realised that all my trusted zones have been deleted as well, now I can't even get access to the ferkin server until I've recreated those

01-04-2005, 23:40	#1
Raistlin Inactive Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Services: Depends on the person and the price they're offering Posts: 12,384	Why does Microsoft think we're dumb/imbeciles..... when it's actually been them all along? Ok, two gripes this evening, just thought I'd share these little gems hopefully to stop somebody else making the same mistake that I did..... My Laptop came with XP installed on a FAT32 partition, according to the Manufacturers this is to make life easier for customers as they don't have to worry about all the associated security gubbins that comes with NTFS. That's ok, thinks I, I can just use Convert c: /FS:NTFS and that will convert my drive to NTFS. I did the responsible thing and backed up all of my data, files etc, to the Server and ploughed straight ahead..... That's when things went to Hell in a handbag. The reason I wanted to do this was to enable group security settings, user groups, file permissions etc..... Shame that Microsoft don't trust users with XP Home installed to be able to handle this sort of technology. You see it turns out that this feature isn't available in XP Home (but I'm sure you already knew that anyway), I never thought to check - it never occured to me that they would have removed the feature for any reason. So, having discovered (to my absolute delight) that the whole excersize was pointless as I still couldn't do what I wanted to do I then get the next exciting revelation. For some reason, the conversion process has destroyed the programs list of my Firewall (ZA). None of the programs that were previously listed in the access list are in there anymore, the whole thing needs setting up again. So, now I'm getting alerts from ZA left right and center. It's then that I realise that the system has slowed to a snails pace and is all but non-responsive. I finally track down the cause, you'll like this, for some reason the conversion to NTFS has triggered my AV software and caused it to do a complete sweep of the entire partition.......Deep joy..... Cue much waiting and banging of head against desk..... Like I said, just wanted to share I'm off to blow up MS HQ in the states this weekend, anybody want to lend me the air fare __________________ FFS just realised that all my trusted zones have been deleted as well, now I can't even get access to the ferkin server until I've recreated those