"Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@standards.com> wrote in message
news:eKIqvuz9JHA.1336@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Hmmm, here's a thought.
>
> My desktop is a multiboot system.
> Several daze ago, I noticed that one of the OS could not see the Vista
> system, tho the Vista system could see the desktop OS.
>
> The problem was that that desktop OS was impure, i.e., it was an install
of
> Win 2000 OVER Win 98, and the workgroup name did not get updated.
>
> So, I wonder if booting to that OS, and then using Vista to access those
> files might have caused a screw up in NTFS/Share permissions.
>
> Guess I'll have to test.

Darn, that could not have been the problem, because the COPY/PASTE issue
also happened for local files on the Vista system.

I'll just have to make sure that I do a backup every day, at least once.

Until recently, I was not too actively using the Vista system, and I still
keep all my files on the desktop, so going to a 10 day old backup really
only required an update to the AV software.

In effect, I got the Vista system so I'd be able to test programming with
Office 2007, in particular Excel 2007. All source files are kept on the
desktop, except for brief periods when I need to debug in Office 2007 using
VB 6, or test in Excel 2007 directly.