Hello, I'm glad it's Friday, because i'm contemplating getting a drink if i make it through this day. I've got two unrelated issues that are driving me up the wall. One is i need to get it fixed, because i need it to work, the other is this worked before and it's making me pull my hair out now that it isn't! Ok, enough ranting. Here goes. First of all i hate fresh reinstalls even though i know they are necessary, even with backup images it seems as if i take a week or so afterward ironing out bugs. My first one comes in the form of vmware server. In a slight aside i found Vista performance unacceptable on this machine so it went back to xp pro, i need to find 2 more gigs of ddr5700 ram for this machine. Ok, vmware server, install it and reload the virtual machines from backup. They go in to c:\Virtual machines the default place where server looks for them. I log out of the admin account and log on as my user who is in the power user's group and i try to open a virtual machine so i can then start it. Slight problem i get a permissions denied message, with no intdication if it's a device, filesystem, user right, i had this working prveiously, and i can not remember what i did i thought i would have noted it down, apparently i missed that one. My second problem and this is occurring for administrator and my user i can not for the life of me get my view settings to stick. This is going past iritating and getting in to downright annoying given the fact that i go in to some folders and they're in icon view, others are in list views. Here's what i did i can't figure where i missed a step. I went in to my computer though not in to any drive, went to view, toolbars and unchecked address bar. I then went back to view twice more, the first to go through the explorer bars options and ensure they were all off they were, i like running with a clean screen, and the second was to take that folder from icon view where it was, to list view. I then went to tools, folder options, ensured folders were set to classic and ton the view tab turned off the hide extensions for known filetypes option. I then hit apply and ok, settings looked good so i went back in to tools, folder options view tab and applied those settings to all folders, ok-d all the way out and closed the my computer window. I then went back in, first folder the my computer window worked fine, went to the c: drive, it was back to icon view, i do not understand why these settings are not taking. If i could figure out where in group policy these settings are or create a template i'd force them by doing it that way, but that seems like using a steam roller to kill a problem. I am open to suggestions. Thanks. Dave.