"I haven't seen anyone try to copy music from one folder
> from another on a dual boot. I must be leading a sheltered existence"
ARE YOU SERIOUS ???

you run a dual boot and DON'T routinely share files and folders ? I can see
why you were so excited to figure out you can. why in the hell would anyone
double load their music or picture collection in 2 separate places on a PC,
using up twice the storage space? and rather than your convoluted,
confusing workaround here's another tip for you genius... make a folder on
your PC called D:\Music, when running XP, right click on your My Music
folder and select "move". now point it to D:\Music. now boot Vista. right
click on Music folder and select "move"... you see where we're going :-)



"Chad Harris" <vistaneedsmuchowork.net> wrote in message
news:ugjKfInlHHA.4552@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> You da woman KDE. A lot of people I know who dual boot don't copy music
> files and folders. I haven't seen anyone try to copy music from one
> folder from another on a dual boot. I must be leading a sheltered
> existance rather than travelling in the fast sophisticated lane where your
> butt sits. The folders would represent CDs in this case. They spend a
> lot of time re-ripping them on their Vista boots. This would apply in any
> context as well that you communicated one pc to another.
>
> I look forward to your prolific and profound awesome help if it ever comes
> anywhere on these groups. Knock yourself out. LOL
>
> I think if you get your anatomy examined thoroughly, you'll find that
> sarcasm isn't the only thing dripping from one of your orifices. You may
> need to load up on some antibiotics for resistant problems.
>
> CH
>
> Paul McNulty--don't let the door hit your ass on the way out of Main
> Justice! It's always been the case that tough prosecutors run like mega
> chickens when their butts are in a sling and that's what you did.
>
> Dead in the Water and Proud to Be Swimmin' Wit Da Fishes and Christopha
> and soon Sylvio Dante and Bobby:
>
> FRANK RICH: Earth to G.O.P: The Gipper Is Dead
> OF course you didn’t watch the first Republican presidential debate on
> MSNBC. Even the party’s most loyal base didn’t abandon Fox News, where
> Bill O’Reilly, interviewing the already overexposed George Tenet, drew far
> more viewers. Yet the few telling video scraps that entered the 24/7
> mediasphere did turn the event into an instant “Saturday Night Live”
> parody without “SNL” having to lift a finger. The row of 10 middle-aged
> white candidates, David Letterman said, looked like “guys waiting to tee
> off at a restricted country club.”
>
>
>
> Since then, panicked Republicans have been either blaming the “Let’s Make
> a Deal” debate format or praying for salvation-by-celebrity in the form of
> another middle-aged white guy who might enter the race, Fred Thompson.
> They don’t seem to get that there is not another major brand in the
> country — not Wal-Mart, not G.E., not even Denny’s nowadays — that would
> try to sell a mass product with such a demographically homogeneous sales
> force. And that’s only half the problem. The other half is that the
> Republicans don’t have a product to sell. Aside from tax cuts and a wall
> on the Mexican border, the only issue that energized the presidential
> contenders was Ronald Reagan. The debate’s most animated moments by far
> came as they clamored to lip-sync his “optimism,” his “morning in
> America,” his “shining city on the hill” and even, in a bizarre John
> McCain moment out of a Chucky movie, his grin.
>
>
> The candidates mentioned Reagan’s name 19 times, the current White House
> occupant’s once. Much as the Republicans hope that the Gipper can still be
> a panacea for all their political ills, so they want to believe that if
> only President Bush would just go away and take his rock-bottom approval
> rating and equally unpopular war with him, all of their problems would be
> solved. But it could be argued that the Iraq fiasco, disastrous to
> American interests as it is, actually masks the magnitude of the
> destruction this presidency has visited both on the country in general and
> the G.O.P. in particular.
>
>
> By my rough, conservative calculation — feel free to add — there have been
> corruption, incompetence, and contracting or cronyism scandals in these
> cabinet departments: Defense, Education, Justice, Interior, Homeland
> Security, Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services, and Housing and
> Urban Development. I am not counting State, whose deputy secretary, a
> champion of abstinence-based international AIDS funding, resigned last
> month in a prostitution scandal, or the General Services Administration,
> now being investigated for possibly steering federal favors to Republican
> Congressional candidates in 2006. Or the Office of Management and Budget,
> whose chief procurement officer was sentenced to prison in the Abramoff
> fallout. I will, however, toss in a figure that reveals the sheer depth of
> the overall malfeasance: no fewer than four inspectors general, the
> official watchdogs charged with investigating improprieties in each
> department, are themselves under investigation simultaneously — an
> all-time record.
>
>
>
> Wrongdoing of this magnitude does not happen by accident, but it is not
> necessarily instigated by a Watergate-style criminal conspiracy. When
> corruption is this pervasive, it can also be a byproduct of a governing
> philosophy. That’s the case here. That Bush-Rove style of governance, the
> common denominator of all the administration scandals, is the Frankenstein
> creature that stalks the G.O.P. as it faces 2008. It has become the
> Republican brand and will remain so, even after this president goes, until
> courageous Republicans disown it and eradicate it.
>
>
> It’s not the philosophy Mr. Bush campaigned on. Remember the candidate who
> billed himself as a “different kind of Republican” and a “compassionate
> conservative”? Karl Rove wanted to build a lasting Republican majority by
> emulating the tactics of the 1896 candidate, William McKinley, whose
> victory ushered in G.O.P. dominance that would last until the New Deal
> some 35 years later. The Rove plan was to add to the party’s base, much as
> McKinley had at the dawn of the industrial era, by attracting new
> un-Republican-like demographic groups, including Hispanics and
> African-Americans. Hence, No Child Left Behind, an education program
> pitched particularly to urban Americans, and a 2000 nominating convention
> that starred break dancers, gospel singers, Colin Powell and, as an M.C.,
> the only black Republican member of Congress, J. C. Watts.
>
>
> As always, the salesmanship was brilliant. One smitten liberal columnist
> imagined in 1999 that Mr. Bush could redefine his party: “If compassion
> and inclusion are his talismans, education his centerpiece and national
> unity his promise, we may say a final, welcome goodbye to the wedge issues
> that have divided Americans by race, ethnicity and religious conviction.”
> Or not. As Matthew Dowd, the disaffected Bush pollster, concluded this
> spring, the uniter he had so eagerly helped elect turned out to be “not
> the person” he thought, but instead a divider who wanted to appeal to the
> “51 percent of the people” who would ensure his hold on power.
>
>
> But it isn’t just the divisive Bush-Rove partisanship that led to scandal.
> The corruption grew out of the White House’s insistence that
> partisanship — the maintenance of that 51 percent — dictate every
> governmental action no matter what the effect on the common good. And so
> the first M.B.A. president ignored every rule of sound management. Loyal
> ideologues or flunkies were put in crucial positions regardless of their
> ethics or competence. Government business was outsourced to campaign
> contributors regardless of their ethics or competence. Even orthodox
> Republican fiscal prudence was tossed aside so Congressional allies could
> be bought off with bridges to nowhere.
>
>
> This was true way before many, let alone Matthew Dowd, were willing to see
> it. It was true before the Iraq war. In retrospect, the first
> unimpeachable evidence of the White House’s modus operandi was reported by
> the journalist Ron Suskind, for Esquire, at the end of 2002. Mr. Suskind
> interviewed an illustrious Bush appointee, the University of Pennsylvania
> political scientist John DiIulio, who had run the administration’s
> compassionate-conservative flagship, the Office of Faith-Based and
> Community Initiatives. Bemoaning an unprecedented “lack of a policy
> apparatus” in the White House, Mr. DiIulio said: “What you’ve got is
> everything — and I mean everything — being run by the political arm. It’s
> the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis.”
>
>
>
> His words have been borne out repeatedly: by the unqualified political
> hacks and well-connected no-bid contractors who sabotaged the occupation
> and reconstruction of Iraq; the politicization of science at the Food and
> Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency; the
> outsourcing of veterans’ care to a crony company at Walter Reed; and the
> purge of independent United States attorneys at Alberto Gonzales’s Justice
> Department. But even more pertinent, perhaps, to the Republican future is
> how the Mayberry Machiavellis alienated the precise groups that Mr. Bush
> had promised to add to his party’s base.
>
>
> By installing a political hack, his 2000 campaign manager, Joe Allbaugh,
> at the top of FEMA, the president foreordained the hiring of Brownie and
> the disastrous response to Katrina. At the Education Department, the
> signature No Child Left Behind program, Reading First, is turning out to
> be a cesspool of contracting conflicts of interest. It’s also at that
> department that Bush loyalists stood passively by while the student-loan
> industry scandal exploded; at its center is Nelnet, the single largest
> corporate campaign contributor to the 2006 G.O.P. Congressional campaign
> committee. Back at Mr. Gonzales’s operation, where revelations of
> politicization and cover-ups mount daily, it turns out that no black
> lawyers have been hired in the nearly all-white criminal section of the
> civil rights division since 2003.
>
>
>
> The sole piece of compassionate conservatism that Mr. Bush has tried not
> to sacrifice to political expedience — nondraconian immigration reform —
> is also on the ropes, done in by a wave of xenophobia that he has failed
> to combat. Just how knee-jerk this strain has become could be seen in the
> MSNBC debate when Chris Matthews asked the candidates if they would
> consider a constitutional amendment to allow presidential runs by
> naturalized citizens like their party’s star governor, Arnold
> Schwarzenegger (an American since 1983), and its national chairman,
> Senator Mel Martinez of Florida. Seven out of 10 said no.
>
>
> We’ve certainly come a long way from that 2000 Philadelphia convention,
> with its dream of forging an inclusive, long-lasting G.O.P. majority.
> Instead of break dancers and a black Republican congressman (there are
> none now), we’ve had YouTube classics like Mr. Rove’s impersonation of a
> rapper at a Washington journalists’ banquet and George Allen’s “macaca”
> meltdown. Simultaneously, the once-reliable evangelical base is starting
> to drift as some of its leaders join the battle against global warming and
> others recognize that they’ve been played for fools on “family values” by
> the G.O.P. establishment that covered up for Mark Foley.
>
>
> Meanwhile, most of the pressing matters that the public cares passionately
> about — Iraq, health care, the environment and energy independence —
> belong for now to the Democrats. Though that party’s first debate wasn’t
> exactly an intellectual feast either, actual issues were engaged by
> presidential hopefuls representing a cross section of American
> demographics. You don’t see Democratic candidates changing the subject to
> J.F.K. and F.D.R. They are free to start wrestling with the future while
> the men inheriting the Bush-Rove brand of Republicanism are reduced to
> harking back to a morning in America on which the sun set in 1989.
>
>
>
> "KDE" <knott_me@NOSPAM.hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uTTVpXmlHHA.3496@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> wow ! I wasn't aware you could actually copy music and files from one
>> folder to another ! (dripping sarcasm)
>>
>> "Chad Harris" <vistaneedsmuchowork.net> wrote in message
>> news:e3A%23NgllHHA.2596@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> Ripping music takes time, and this is the way you can put any or all of
>>> your XP WMP tunes into Vista's WMP 11 *instantly.*
>>>
>>> 1) Pull up the XP "My Music" folder by typing in run box or Explorer
>>> Folder address bar:
>>>
>>> XP Drive\Documents and Settings\XP Profile\My Documents\My Music
>>>
>>> 2) Pull up the Vista folder by typing in run box or Explorer Folder
>>> address bar:
>>>
>>> Vista Drive\Users\Vista Profile\Music
>>>
>>> 3) Copy from XP folder either the folder that represents a CD or
>>> individual tune to Vista by holding down right mouse and dragging to
>>> Vista folder>select copy.
>>>
>>> 4) WMP can transfer to Ipod folder and vice versa. You may have to
>>> change the file storage format for compatibility.
>>>
>>> On Vista the Itunes Music folder is located at:
>>>
>>> Vista Drive\Users\Vista Profile\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music.
>>>
>>> You can bring the "pictures folder" or any "music folders" up instantly
>>> on Vista by typing the word pictures or music into the Search box above
>>> the Start button.
>>>
>>>
>>> CH
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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