Re: making folders private in XP

From: Steve Worcester (sworcest_at_xmission.com)
Date: 08/15/03 

Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:59:38 -0600

I don't know if this helps any; but I had the same problem yesterday. C:/My
Documents was open to new users with limited privileges until I converted to
NTFS. Now checking the folders and the Sharing "Make this folder private"
is greyed out still. However, there is a message at the bottom of the
screen saying: This is XP Pro.

"The options on this tab are disabled because this folder is in another
folder that is private."

It this happening to you?

This machine now seems to work. I can now log in as another user and open
Word, Excel, or Notepad and will be denied access to the protected
directories and their files.

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-Steve

"ross" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:bhg3n9$hod$1@arachne.labyrinth.net.au...
> Hi, advice wanted please.
>
> I have not previously defined multiple users on my home PC (XP Home 5.1,
> SP1).
>
> Now I want to define 2 users, and each is to have some private folders
that
> are not visible to the other account. I read somewhere in the Windows
> documentation that the file system has to be NTFS to support this.
> Therefore I converted my logical discs from FAT32 to NTFS, and on the
> properties *** for the folders that I want to hide, I can see the
> following option, under the "Sharing" tab:
>
> "To make this folder and its subfolders private so that only you have
> access, select the following check box:"
>
> The problem is, the check box is greyed-out. What else do I have to do?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ross
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