Fixing User Access in Windows XP Home

If you log onto Windows XP Home under an account with Administrator privileges and try to access the files in the profile of another account, you will get an Access Denied error. This is because of how the permissions are set up on the directory tree. In one recent example, I found that the Owner of the directory tree couldn’t be displayed, and that the Account that used that profile and the SYSTEM account had Full Control, whereas no other account had any control.

Gimp…The king of image editors of the open source world

People have been asking me for pointers about how to improve photos from their digital cameras. I don’t claim to be an expert at photography or at image editing, but I do know a few basics, so I decided to write a tutorial on the most elementary techniques.