how to restrict or deny hard drive(s) access for guest's/user's accounts

From: thomas (thomas_justice@yahoo.com)
Date: 02/23/03 

From: "thomas" <thomas_justice@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 17:08:56 -0800

i am using wxp pro.

i am setting up user passworded accounts and 1 guest
account on one machine. this i managed to do successfully.
what i want to do next is to limit, restrict or
prefereably deny user and guest accounts access to one or
more hard drives (not even to read). failing that, i want
to deny user and guest accounts access to certain folders
accross different hard drives (not even to read).
preferably straight denial, much less ideal would be to
use password protect. all hard drives are internal fixed
hdd's. i understand that currently each user can only
access his or her own document folder in the c: drive. i
want to go further so that only me as the administrator
can access these other drives and folders within them
while user and guest accounts could not. can this be done?

i also want to limit what application certain users can
use and what application a guest can use. is this
possible? if it is, how?

these are my serach terms on the kb databases to no avail:
'restrict access to folders'
'restrict access to files'
'folder access'
'file access'
'restrict hard drives access'
'hard drive access'
'restrict access'
'limit access'
'denied access'
'restrict application launch'
'restrict program files'
'hard drives security'
'folders security'
'access security'
'access user account'
'restrict user account'
these search terms did not shed any lights.

thank you in advance for any help and advice and pointers
on how achieve what i want to do.

tj

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