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On all 4 of my computers (2 laptops, 2 desktops), two running XP SP1, two running XP SP2, the guest account cannot use the Winamp shuffle function. When I turn on shuffle, the next song that gets played is the last one in the playlist, then it goes to the start of the playlist and begins going straight through it, one after the other, in order.

If I give make the guest account part of the administrators group (with the "Computer Management" program that comes with XP), shuffle works on the guest account. But that defeats the purpose of the guest account, and so I'd like to not have to do that.

I tried giving the guest account full access to the "Program Files/Winamp" directory and sub-directories, and even tried giving it full access to all the sub-directories under "Documents and Settings\Administrator" as well as the root directory. Still didn't work.

Any ideas? This sucks! Seems like a few people have had the same problem over at the winamp forums, but no one's been able to figure out what the problem is.

On all 4 computers?? I find that hard to believe, especially when, on the newest computer (a laptop that I just bought about a month ago), I simply installed winamp, and didn't change a single setting because I wanted to verify that the shuffle problem wasn't being caused by anything "unique" that I was doing on my other 3 computers. All I did after the installation from the admin account, was log off, log on to the guest account, open up winamp, select the "winamp modern" skin (because it prompts you for a skin choice when you first run winamp), add about 10 songs to the playlist, turn on shuffle, push play, and begin pushing "next" to see if songs were picked randomly or in the unwanted order that I describe in the original post.

I'll try this when I get home, but I'm doubtful it'll work. Regardless, thanks for the tip.

Tried deleting that file. I also noticed that I don't have an "appdata" environment variable, so I added that (set to "C:\Documents and Settings\Guest\Application Data"), restarted, deleted winamp.ini. Still no luck. I even tried going into the "Administrative Tools"->"Local Security Settings" program, and under "Local Policies"->"User Rights Assignment", for every policy that had Administrators, I added Guests. So you'd think that this would make the Guest account have the same access as it does when I make it a member of the Administrators group in the "Computer Management" program. But that didn't work either (and I did try restarting the computer after doing that). My plan was to do that, see that it works, and start removing the Guests group from each policy one by one until shuffle stopped working. Then I'd know what policy that the Guest account needed to be a part of to use shuffle.

So still, the only way I've gotten it to work is by making the Guest account a member of the Administrators group.