And why on earthare all the commands to actually run this OS in, of allplaces, the cmd line box? I thought you guys were whooping it up that you got out of beingashell on DOS, now I find that PXE is great, but I still don't know how to initiate italone without just copying the barest of the install disk files (or a bootable partition). Apparently from digging around in the commands (all hidden and not documented of course, like the services -- egads)you can do just about everything from there in a minimalist setting -- basically like running DOS and then typing net use or win.But, to myquestion: If I am supposedly some sort of admin, which I should be sinceI have one machine, no network, and if there is no admin, who the heck is running this thing? It isn't someone whodoesn't let malware, rootkits, viruses (there are too manynames for thesethings these days...are "worms" dead? Trojans seem to be the kick now) on mymachine becauseyourabsurdly restrictive and wayyyyyyyy over-implemented security system only gives me grief, not the little'nasties' that Norton catches.So, I want to move a top level directory from onedrive to another. Sorry, can't do that. You have to take ownership of it first (OK, not a problem), then add yourself as a userwith whatever rights (Ijust put "all" since Iownit andI will be the one cleaning up the problems, not MS), then I choose "all subdirectories and files" andsomething like "implement to lower".But no, it doesn't implement to lower directories. If they have any inherited rights at all, even if there areno other listed users (we haven't even gotten to groups yet), I can'tfind outhow to strip all the inhereted rights off unless I do them one directory at a time. Oh, directory, yes... It changes the files, not the directories. I'm lost now.Enough bashing ofthe system, just tell me how to be an 'admin' on my own "I paid for the hardware, the software andyou are not responsible for a@#$ thing if I #@# it up" machine. Is there some arcaneicacls cmd junk I have to run without knowing what in the world I'm doing? I'd rather run linux- at least it has really good man pages.Seriously guys (gals?), if you are going to pretend this is a workstation on a server, make theuser accounts and groups like your own windows server. I ran that for years as an admin with no problem. Before that, novell admin. Before that (I'm ashamed to say) Win 3.11/3.12 (remember NetBEUI?).Someone give me a scriptor a book or something. I'm going to killsomething if I have to do this by hand again (probably a tree, I'm a non-violent type).Help!Shawn Harvey / sparkinark** LovingWin 7 more than Vista, even when it crashes --- often **sparkinark@yahoo.comnein

Hey,Really interesting comments there. :)To your question on "If I am supposedly some sort of admin, which I should be sinceI have one machine, no network, and if there is no admin, who the heck is running this thing? It isn't someone whodoesn't let malware, rootkits, viruses (there are too manynames for thesethings these days...are "worms" dead? Trojans seem to be the kick now) on mymachine becauseyourabsurdly restrictive and wayyyyyyyy over-implemented security system only gives me grief, not the little'nasties' that Norton catches.", I have to disagree with you...1st: Most computers are now connected to a network, and threats are spread through the network. By default when you install Windos 7, you are the administrator of the system, just that some actions will need UAC elevation, before you can execute them. You might be thinking that, you are the only admin, and you are not connected to any network, then feel free to turn off UAC by opening "MSCONFIG", and select the Tools tab. You can disable UAC from there.Regarding "So, I want to move a top level directory from onedrive to another. Sorry, can't do that. You have to take ownership of it first (OK, not a problem), then add yourself as a userwith whatever rights (Ijust put "all" since Iownit andI will be the one cleaning up the problems, not MS), then I choose "all subdirectories and files" andsomething like "implement to lower".", which particular directory are you trying to take ownership?If you are referring to the Windows directory, what's your reasoning on taking ownership? If it's not the Windows directory, which directory are you referring to? :) Jabez Gan [MVP] - http://www.msblog.org