# Help - Publishing files to the web in windows XP.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-publishing-files-to-the-web-in-windows-xp/179487>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 4, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-publishing-files-to-the-web-in-windows-xp/179487 "2003-06-04T00:48:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-publishing-files-to-the-web-in-windows-xp/179487/1 "2003-06-04T00:48:36Z")

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I used to use web publishing wizard all the time on earlier versions of windows. Now when I come to use it (in windows XP) it seems very restricted, it only has one ‘account’ that I can publish using. And that is MSN groups. I have my own webspace - how can I get the publishing wizard to use my webspace?  
I have also tried using ftp command in a console window, I do a ‘put’ and it doesn’t throw an error, neither does it bother to do anything at all.

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-publishing-files-to-the-web-in-windows-xp/179487/2 "2003-06-04T00:54:04Z")

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Download the free ftp tool [WS\_FTP LE](http://www.ftpplanet.com/download.htm).

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-publishing-files-to-the-web-in-windows-xp/179487/3 "2003-06-04T01:05:28Z")

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I might end up doing that **Q.E.D** but in the meantime - is there no way of getting the integrated publisher to do it? Like by creating another account or something?

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-publishing-files-to-the-web-in-windows-xp/179487/4 "2003-06-04T01:13:09Z")

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Errrrr…I don’t know. I’ve never used it; I’ve always just FTPed my files onto my webservers. I’ve got XP, let me see if I can figure it out. I have to find the thing first…

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-publishing-files-to-the-web-in-windows-xp/179487/5 "2003-06-04T01:21:10Z")

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It’s ok **Q.E.D.** I downloaded your app.

It was for the sake of uploading [this](http://homepages.manx.net/lobley/dscf0006.jpg) for another [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=188376)

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-publishing-files-to-the-web-in-windows-xp/179487/6 "2003-06-04T15:01:39Z")

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Lobsang, what browser are you using? did you try Netscape 7 with Composer? It’s a great, free web page editor that publishes too.