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Hi all,
this is a trick I found to enable "folder sharing" and other disabled-by-default wlm features, especially for non-american users.

Just login into your passport account profile (www.passport.net) and change your country from your real one to "USA" in the personal data section, then save and exit.

Now log off and login again in wlm and you will find all options available, including folder sharing and all the grayed out options in the settings menu (video carousel for example).

I think this trick can be useful especially for testers because mp!l is intended to be tested on full-working version of wlm to find how many bugs we can ;)

I tried this trick myself and it works like a charm (I'm italian)

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02-13-2006 10:49 AM
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RE: "Folder Sharing" disabled
Old :P
This works for everthing so i havent reverted back to India after the 250 mb on hotmail deal. Thats how i got into testing for windows live mail .... i think *-)

The thing is that .... i still dont have sharing :S
It still says that my computer doesnt support file sharing ..... got any ideas ??

Is there something like a minimum requirements thing that i havent been able to find :S
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It still says that my computer doesnt support file sharing ..... got any ideas ??

Well it matters whart kind of format you used to format your hard drive, if you used fat32 then Folder Sharing will not work, but if you used NTFS it should.

If you are talking about normal file sharing check your setting throgh and check your Anti-virus/Anti-spyware/Firewall program to see if you enabled some ports ect.

I don't know if this is 100% but bere with me
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Well it matters whart kind of format you used to format your hard drive, if you used fat32 then Folder Sharing will not work, but if you used NTFS it should.
I didnt care last time i formatted cause i'm the only person who actually does major stuff on this pc. All other users only do minor stuff .....
Now i know why i regret having fat32 tho id rather have that and save my data if there is a crash :-/
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Now i know why i regret having fat32 tho id rather have that and save my data if there is a crash

But I heard that fat32 cannot support files 15GBs in size, plus if you have NTFS you should just compress the disk drive. Fat32 is already compressed so no need to worry just some draw backs.
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15GBs

ive have never seen such a large file...
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tho id rather have that and save my data if there is a crash

Since when does NTFS magically make you lose data?

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Fat32 is already compressed

No, in fact, fat32 doesn't have any form of compression at all :/
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Is there a way to reformat your hard drive to ntfs without losing any data?
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Is there a way to reformat your hard drive to ntfs without losing any data?


I don't think so, just back up your user account on a DVD then reformat. I think there might be a way to trick WLM into thinking you have NTFS, but I'm not sure.

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Is there a way to reformat your hard drive to ntfs without losing any data?

run the CONVERT tool. but you can't do it on your main hard drive, you'll need to put yours in another computer.
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