Can anyone tell me definitively how to get SIMPLE FILE SHARING to appear in my FOLDER OPTIONS? I have read all sorts of ways, but one in particular just got me in real trouble. Here it is copied and pasted from another post. ================== I think I have done it this time, rendered my Aspire useless. Here's what I was trying to do. SIMPLE FILE SHARING was not showing under FOLDER OPTIONS. So Googleing the problem seemed to point to needing to go into SAFE MODE and give permissions, which I don't understand as I just did a FULL RECOVERY and I was shown to be the Administrator. Nevertheless, I went to SAFE MODE and did some tweaking on the permissions, being a new area I'd not seen I don't think I changed anything critical. When I booted back up it reported PAGING FILE TOO SMALL, the next WINDOW told me where to change that. ================== What it reported after the PAGING FILE TOO SMALL was that it wouldn't initialize EXPLORER.EXE and would go no further. It would not even work from SAFE MODE So for the 2nd time in 3 days I did another full recovery. Now done. It has Service Pack 3 but shows no SIMPLE FILE SHARING. Now before all this it showed it because I used the sharing between computers. Why is it not there this time and why was it there the first time on the same machine? It's maddening I tell ya .... maddening! lol :cry: Does anyone know how to get this to allow SIMPLE FILE SHARING. I see why it's called "SIMPLE" now. One small thing, when I open network connections that 1394 Connection is not there. But what has that to do with it? It's disabled anyway on my other machine and it shares files so that's a bust. I am clueless and need some input if anyone know! Most appreciated. jack
