Subfolders of AppData

[Monty]

Default User is one of the famous junction points that you can't access,
a deal for backwards capacity with old software. I assume that it is a
pointer to Default, but I'm not ready to turn on the Administrator to
find out...

I have attached an extract from "MS Windows 7 In Depth", headed
'Configuring A Default User Profile' which may give some insight.

 

[Monty]

"Monty" wrote in message

I have attached an extract from "MS Windows 7 In Depth", headed
'Configuring A Default User Profile' which may give some insight.

Monty, looks like your attachment got left behind. DougS

Hi Doug,

I can see the attachment that I sent but I don't know why my reply
didn't stay in the original thread. I have re-sent a new copy of my
original reply and that also did not stay within the thread.

If you still cannot see the attachment, leave a note here and I will
type the two paragraphs which address the purpose of the Default User
profile. The attachment was only to avoid my poor typing :-(

 

[Monty]

Hi Doug,

The description for Configuring a Default User Profile in the manual
mentioned above occupied one page and my attachment only covered the
first two paragraphs. If you wish to read the whole page, I have
taken the liberty to post it to:

http://www.mediafire.com/i/?tzl2u0d21myydhb

 

[Ken Blake]

I can see the attachment that I sent but I don't know why my reply
didn't stay in the original thread. I have re-sent a new copy of my
original reply and that also did not stay within the thread.

If you still cannot see the attachment, leave a note here and I will
type the two paragraphs which address the purpose of the Default User
profile. The attachment was only to avoid my poor typing :-(

Bear in mind that many (perhaps most) of us here have attachments
turned off in our newsreaders and won't see an attachment you send.

Also I *highly* recommend to anyone who doesn't have attachments
turned off that they *do* turn them off. Any attachment coming from a
stranger on a newsgroup is potentially dangerous, and opening one is
foolhardy. I don't mean to accuse you of anything personally, but
attachments can readily contain malware.

 

[Yousuf Khan]

Do you and Yousuf Khan "Hide protected operating system files"? If so
you won't see All Users. Do you "Show hidden files and folders"? If not,
you won't see All Users.

Both of the above must be correct or you won't see All Users.

Nope, all hidden & system files are visible in my setup.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Char Jackson]

Bear in mind that many (perhaps most) of us here have attachments
turned off in our newsreaders and won't see an attachment you send.

Also I *highly* recommend to anyone who doesn't have attachments
turned off that they *do* turn them off. Any attachment coming from a
stranger on a newsgroup is potentially dangerous, and opening one is
foolhardy. I don't mean to accuse you of anything personally, but
attachments can readily contain malware.

I've never seen advice to turn off attachments before and certainly
wouldn't suggest it myself, (except for a few click-happy people I
know in real life who keep calling me to fix things after they have
clicked where they shouldn't). My own advice, to all but a few select
people, is to leave attachments enabled and simply practice some
common sense before blindly clicking.

 

[Yousuf Khan]

Do you and Yousuf Khan "Hide protected operating system files"? If so
you won't see All Users. Do you "Show hidden files and folders"? If not,
you won't see All Users.

Both of the above must be correct or you won't see All Users.

Okay, I see it now.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Ken Blake]

I've never seen advice to turn off attachments before and certainly
wouldn't suggest it myself, (except for a few click-happy people I
know in real life who keep calling me to fix things after they have
clicked where they shouldn't). My own advice, to all but a few select
people, is to leave attachments enabled and simply practice some
common sense before blindly clicking.

Your view here is very different from mine. My view is that common
sense dictates that clicking on an attachment from a stranger on a
newsgroup is foolhardy.

 

[Char Jackson]

Your view here is very different from mine. My view is that common
sense dictates that clicking on an attachment from a stranger on a
newsgroup is foolhardy.

It seems like we mostly agree. Common sense is the main ingredient.

 

[KCB]

Bear in mind that many (perhaps most) of us here have attachments
turned off in our newsreaders and won't see an attachment you send.

Also I *highly* recommend to anyone who doesn't have attachments
turned off that they *do* turn them off. Any attachment coming from a
stranger on a newsgroup is potentially dangerous, and opening one is
foolhardy. I don't mean to accuse you of anything personally, but
attachments can readily contain malware.

I was thinking that since this isn't a binary group, attachments won't be
posted anyway. Or another possibility would be that eternal september (in
my case) won't post binaries to this group, regardless of it's status.

 

[Stan Brown]

I have attached an extract from "MS Windows 7 In Depth", headed
'Configuring A Default User Profile' which may give some insight.

Thanks for the thought.

But this is a text newsgroup, so your attachment was rejected by man
servers -- including news.individual.net, the one I use.

 

[Stan Brown]

Your view here is very different from mine. My view is that common
sense dictates that clicking on an attachment from a stranger on a
newsgroup is foolhardy.

If you're using a decent news server (not client software, but server
[host]), it's a moot point. A decent news server rejects attachments
that are posted to text newsgroups including this one. The article
may be rejected too, or just posted without the attachment.

A newsgroup is a text newsgroup if it doesn't have "binaries" in its
name.

 

[Ken Blake]

Your view here is very different from mine. My view is that common
sense dictates that clicking on an attachment from a stranger on a
newsgroup is foolhardy.

If you're using a decent news server (not client software, but server
[host]), it's a moot point. A decent news server rejects attachments
that are posted to text newsgroups including this one. The article
may be rejected too, or just posted without the attachment.

Yes, but my intent was to provide advice to everyone, not just those
who use such news servers.

 

[Stan Brown]

Your view here is very different from mine. My view is that common
sense dictates that clicking on an attachment from a stranger on a
newsgroup is foolhardy.

If you're using a decent news server (not client software, but server
[host]), it's a moot point. A decent news server rejects attachments
that are posted to text newsgroups including this one. The article
may be rejected too, or just posted without the attachment.

Yes, but my intent was to provide advice to everyone, not just those
who use such news servers.

I think we're in violent agreement, Ken.

There is so little knowledge these days about how Usenet works that I
try to add information when a relevant topic comes up. But of course
I agree with your advice too -- clicking on something when you don't
know for certain what it is is an invitation to infect your system
with malware.

 

[Ken Blake]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:47:35 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

Your view here is very different from mine. My view is that common
sense dictates that clicking on an attachment from a stranger on a
newsgroup is foolhardy.

If you're using a decent news server (not client software, but server
[host]), it's a moot point. A decent news server rejects attachments
that are posted to text newsgroups including this one. The article
may be rejected too, or just posted without the attachment.

Yes, but my intent was to provide advice to everyone, not just those
who use such news servers.

I think we're in violent agreement, Ken.

LOL! Glad to hear it, and sorry to have misunderstood your intent.