Now as I had to elevate to get to see "my" files ... it appears that once elevated, that elevation ... remains (?) for a period of time (?) till shutdown (?)

Not sure, but once the door is opened, it appears to remain opened, for some "session", though I don't know what that "session" is.


So.

So in my Networking thread (originally dealing with Vista/XP, but I have more access to W7/XP, so that's what I've mainly been using), I observed, what I thought, was me setting up sharing settings such that no logins would be required, but instead what I believe happened is that like elevating, I was in one of those "sessions", so further access were unhampered, unfettered with login requests ...

- I'm going to need to revisit that! ...