Hi there
I have 2 specific problems which are now frustrating me.
Background:
I am not a PC professional.
My PC is my toy which I use mainly for
A-My Virtual Reality eg
1-Flight simulator
2-VC++ 5 programming
3-experimenting with audio-visual stuff
B-My True Reality
1-maintaining educational documentation of my own profession on
Power Point
2-keep contact with my family when i'm abroad via FrontPage
2-my finances
Structure of PC:
I run MS XP Pro on my desktop @ home
I do not actively use My documents because i have no control over what
gets wriiten to it
Some 10 years ago i started the following procedure:
my first directory/folder in C: is "#myName" and i put all my stuff
in there
Software:
My Visual Studio 97(Visual c5++) users a browsers for its help files
When I am away from home, i update my website with FrontPage to keep
contact with my kids
These are all done with "relative" links, and they work off line long
after they are no longer on the net
eg......
<td><img border="0" src="images/bar2.JPG" width="640"
height="480"></td>
Recently I have customized my most used folders with icons that i have
placed in the first folder in c: eg "#Icons"
All these have survived numerous backups and reinstallations after
disk reformats
Problem:
I have now bought myself a new laptop which comes with a bundled XP
home.
Installed my software and data
All works except
-internet pages previously referred to displays just those little red
X's
-help browser in Visual studio doesn't work...browser settings wrong
blah blah.
OK. This has to be XP home
Install XP Pro on the PC
Visual studio help files work but not the old web pages
Can't find a discrepency between the settings of Internet options
between the 2 XP's
the file properties of the undisplayed images indicates the source as
the local file but in the root dir of the pc...eg ///c:/filename.
I do not know how to set the PC/browser to understand that the root
should be the folder
Second problem that occurred is that after several reinstallations
etc, the folder specific icons do not appear anymore!
The desktop.ini's are still there and their content is good and valid
The folders are still in their original places.
the references are absolute, so no confusion eg
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=%SystemDrive%\#0 Icons 4 Explorer Folders\_Work_012.ico
IconIndex=0
The folders are "read-only" to force XP to read them.
Manual reinstating the icons renders a desktop.ini with identical
content.
XP is obviously not reading the desktop.ini's but why not?
What am i missing?
I've been on MS's technet site but none i get helps!
thx
Nols
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