Your response mirrors exactly what I found and worked out myself. I appreciate the enhanced explanation. However, the last part is something I am not finding in the Registry of my machine. Perhaps this feature is not available in Windows 2000 Professional, but if there is a setting in User Permissions or somewhere else that enables this Security tab or permissions menu to come up, I would appreciate knowing how to do it. Maybe this is something unique to XP. I tried right clicking all over my registry on different Keys and Subkeys, but this never came up for me.

Another quesiton I have is on an XP Home Machine of a friend. I was helping him by installing a 200 gig HD for a collection of music he wanted to archive and exchange with an IPOD. He had first downloaded this music to a folder on his desktop. In a few of the subfolders, either corrupt files were installed or something happened (and I wasn't there when he downloaded it), but I noticed these subfolders were duplicates of other folders. These particular ones appear empty, even with SHOW ALL HIDDEN FOLDERS AND FILES enabled. The attributes to those folders are normal - nothing HIDDEN or READ ONLY, however the outer Folder in which these 6 subfolders reside has a READ ONLY attribute, which I cannot get to go away. I have tried attacking this in Safe Mode, from the Command Prompt, and anything else I know, but no matter what, this folder and the 6 subfolders, all of which appear empty, is unremoveable. From the Command Prompt, the reply is that the subfolders can't be found, yet they certainly disply on the desktop in the Windows interface. This is not a big issue, as it takes up minimal space, but it bugs me to have something hanging around that I can't resolve or even know WHY. Again your expertise would be most appreciated.

Where in the UK do you reside? My wife and I love Bath - it is our favorite area, especially the countryside all around it.

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As to the security toolbar you found mentioned in the windrivers thread - I think the member is talking about permissions. If you right click on a key you should have a permissions menu item.

I don't have a 2k machine to hand to confirm it, but I believe that is what is meant.[/QUOTE]