Making files private

From: Borko (beoservis@sezampro.yu)
Date: 06/06/02 

From: "Borko" <beoservis@sezampro.yu>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 04:06:54 -0700

>-----Original Message-----
>I have recently upgraded from ME to XP Home. I have four
>accounts set up. I am the administrator. The other
>three are limited users. When I run Control
>userpasswords2, I can see another administrator which was
>the default admin when it was setup but my account
>appears to be linked to it. When I manually log on to
>it, it brings up my account.
>The problem I am experiencing is when right clicking on a
>file and selecting sharing and security and the sharing
>tab, the "make this folder private" line is grayed out
>and will not let me check it. I've logged in to the
>other accounts and they respond the same way.
>
>A second issue...when opening Windows Explorer, I can see
>the User1 Documents, User3 Documents, User4 Documents and
>Shared Documents folders under My Computer, but User2 is
>non-existent. When I am in their profile I can see it as
>My Documents but still not under My Computer.
>
>Any user can access anyones folders and programs. Kinda
>defeats the purpose of having administrator settings.
>Any ideas anyone?
>.
>
If the option is gray your disk is FAT32 system. You must
have NTFS to this option be aveliable.

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