Dear Josh, So sorry that this happened to you. It may be possible that the company in question purchased (or otherwise acquired) the rights to use your photos because you posted them here. I've posted this info before, but below is the relevant portion of GW's Terms of Service. I miss all of you. However, life has dealt me some hard blows in the past months. No time to post photos, but when I do it will always be at the other place (LP). I saw this message and felt the need to respond. Cheers to everyone, Blanca By submitting content, which shall include your member name, to any "public area" of the GardenWeb Network, including, but not limited to, the forums and your personal website, exchange page and journal, you grant iVillage a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right (including any moral rights) and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, sublicense, assign, derive revenue or other remuneration from, communicate to the public, perform and display the content (in whole or in part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, for the full term of any Rights that may exist in such content. If you are not the creator of such content, you also warrant that the holder of any Rights, including moral rights in such content, has completely and effectively waived all such rights and validly and irrevocably granted to you the right to grant the license stated above. You also permit any visitor or member to access, display, view, store and reproduce such content solely for personal, noncommercial use.

Hi, snidely, I appreciate the continued food for thought re: my Windows user account password situation. :-) :-) OTOH, I'm not sure your comments reflect the conventional wisdom (at least in the online articles I've been reading, as I try to keep an open mind about these things): 1. Just because "anyone wishing entry can easily enter" doesn't mean one should make it easy for the attackers. "Anyone wishing entry can easily enter" your home and/or car as well. Are you saying you yourself, therefore, never lock your car doors or the door and windows of your home ? Are you saying your email account password is "password" ? Most people say, "Make it as hard as possible for the hackers to get at your information." I tend to agree. 2. You're right -- I don't back up my phone conversations. But not backing up emails goes against just about everything I've ever read on basic email safety/security. We all have emails that we would surely not miss if they were gone for good. Apparently, none of yours is very important. You may be one of those "read and delete" types of email readers. That's fine. (In fact, that's the way I am with my RSS feeds.) But... many other people have important information in email messages, in saved online files, etc. That's why such online services as Google, Hotmail/Skydrive, etc. have such large storage to begin with, no ?.... So that people can keep things they want/need to keep. And the email companies themselves back up your email as a precaution and advise users to do the same (via forwarding to second account, using offline client, etc.). 3. I'm not so much concerned about someone getting by Aunt Helen's email address as I am someone hacking into my account and using my email address to send something to her (virus, porn, phishing email, etc.). If my contacts see a message coming from me (or presumably so), they're more likely to open it. That could spell trouble. Again, it's a matter of basic precautions against stuff we don't want to deal with. And that's another reason why I'm moving in the direction of having all my contacts/emails offline.... so that anyone getting into my online webmail account/interface will find nothing there to work with: no contact addresses, no emails stored, no online files, etc. Everything will be offline and backed up further on CD. 4. I'm not so sure the myriads of people who have had their email accounts compromised, emails deleted, contacts bombarded with spam, porn, virus-laden emails, etc. -- and many of whom have written about the nightmare of trying to recover the account -- and the emails) -- would call it all a "slight inconvenience." Again, Mat Honan's recent experience is frightening, and so are the stories of many others. Anyway, I truly appreciate your perspective. I always want to hear the different sides of an issue so I know I'm not missing an 'angle' on whatever I'm thinking about. :-) Btw.... how did you know I have an Aunt Helen ? ;-)

This I can do as I have to often. As bob414 stated, log on as yourself (Administrator) and go to Control Panel. User Accounts and click on Change an Account. Click on the user and change them to Administrator. Just don't forget to switch it back after they do 'whatever.' Jane

Thank you for all the help and suggestions, everyone. "you have too much stuff and your pictures are getting too much traffic". I'm guessing you're probably posting a lot of pictures lately? johnmari - Like susieq07, I have never received that email before. I have had PhotoBucket for almost 3 years. Just last week, I went through and cleaned my albums up a bit and deleted several images. Furthermore, I have not been on this board, or the other board I frequent, very often lately. So, I have posted very few photos in the last month. Makes me wonder if I my photos are getting a lot of traffic for some reason. terriks - I do have my settings on Private, but cannot remember if that box is checked. I'll go take a look. I also want to change a few other settings. johnmari - How do I put the photos back on my hard drive, or is there someway to transfer them to a CD? I really don't want to join another file sharing site.