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I have a related question! How can I TURN OFF the annoying personalized menus. I go into Tools/Customize and un-select the option. But when I exit and return to any Office 2000 program, the stupid personalized/most used feature has turned itself back on! I want to see all menu options all the time. However Office seems to think I need otherwise…

Tried that, but it didn’t help. I agree that it must be something odd for all Office apps to be affected.

Thanks! I passed on the example. Thanks also for the screenshot. He should have an easier time understanding what you and I are trying to tell him.

Thanks, Phil. I think this will work. He’s getting antsy to just delete the entire mess, but we’ll try just the indexes first.

I checked those links (thanks!) but they didn’t really mention any tools. They did confirm that there is no mega-file like Outlook; there are a collection of files. I have tried Netscape.com but can’t find any mention nor any tools to fix a problem like this. *sigh* Oh well.

Eek! Sorry to hear about your troubles. Why did that file get so big?

Anyway, try “Crimson Editor” available at http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
I think it can handle extra large files. I have had very good luck with it. And it is free.

Another that has been recommended to me is “Programmers File Editor” available at http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/11983.html

Good luck!

Thank you!!! I tried to find info on Macromedia’s site, but it isn’t very easy to navigate and locate over there. Turns out something had to be reset on my hosted server…and I had to un-select then re-select “Passive FTP” within Dreamweaver.

It works now. Thanks for your efforts!!!

I also considered it being a “temp” directory…but it stuck with that name each time. I thought temp names rolled/changed so as to not overwrite each other. Whatever…

My ISP did something (I don’t know what…just a lot of typing) and I reset my upload to “passive FTP” and everything now works. I still don’t know what all was up.

Thanks for your help!

Thanks for the efforts. I hate having something weird like this happen, and not hear anyone else have the problem, or (even better ) have a solution. If I find one, I’ll post it here to help the group…

In XP-Home, there is no “Power User.” Only “Computer Administrator” and “Limited”.

Thanks for sticking with this… Just to try something, I created a NEW user as an Admin-type. Works fine. Then went back into the Control Panel and did a “change user type” to non-Admin. That user now doesn’t work at all. I’m not switching between users (e.g. I am NOT using the “switch” feature), I’m just trying to get a non-Admin user functioning. BTW, if I try to create a non-Admin type from scratch, that doesn’t work at all. Shows up on the sign-on screen, but nothing happens when I click on, enter password, and try to get onto the system.

Wow. Sounds like you had more headaches than me. While I’m using this computer for my own personal use (business), I only want one other “just in case” user and/or Guest on this computer. Seems that the non-Admin users cannot sign on to this installation. ??? I did check and verified that both HD were NTFS.

I’m puzzled that I can set up an Admin user and sign on with it, but switching that user to non-Admin blocks sign-on. I wonder if this is some lame MS-Marketing to get you to try XP-Pro…

Thanks. I was guessing that service…didn’t know if there were any others. Based on your suggestion, I’ll be getting Roxio pronto (the new Easy CD thing). Thanks again!

Thanks. Seems that I was trying to get off easy with the lousy built-in service. Based on your suggestion and the other, I’ll be getting Roxio pronto. Thanks!

SECOND POST — Does anyone have any ideas about this??? I tried what I could (the old Win98 way), but I can’t figure out how to get XP to install Video Codecs… Help!