Help XP Tricked me???

From: BD (brendan_d1@hotmail.com)
Date: 12/07/02 

From: brendan_d1@hotmail.com (BD)
Date: 7 Dec 2002 01:58:20 -0800

Hi i recently created a whole bunch of new users (all administrators)
on an XP box through the control panel wizard (not through the
management console). When i clicked on an account and chose 'create
password' a message popped up with something along the lines of;

'Even though you created a password other users still have access to
your files. Do you want to make your files secure now? Yes, No'

I clicked yes..

Everything was fine I could access all my files but other if other
users (administrators) could not view my documents folder.

But now Eudora wont open on any other user account but mine.. the mail
boxes were in c:\program files\eudora\mailboxes but i get an error
saying could not open c:\...\...\...in.mbx Access is denied and
several other files.

All i can think is that I last modified these files (by check mail) in
my account and now XP wont allow any other users access to them????

How do i unencrypt my my documents directory??? XP didnt ask me any
other questions except the one above.. No warnings nothing about a
recorvery disk, didnt even tell me it was encrypting the data (if
thats what happened... im not really sure what its done to my files to
hide them from other administrators)..??

Thanks
Brendan

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