Re: Making Folders Private

From: Jupiter Jones [MVP] (jones_jupiter_at_hotnomail.com)
Date: 12/19/03


Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 15:20:20 -0700

Marie;
There is no security in FAT32.
You need to be NTFS to Make Folders Private
Windows 95, 98, ME can not exist on or read a NTFS partition.

See this link:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/Private.htm

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Jupiter Jones  [MVP]
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<mariekinsella41@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:092a01c3c67c$6c1f2290$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> If someone wants to password / make private individual
> folders
> "make private" grey) on XP pro. but the help section
> states they cant becuase ".... do not convert drive C to
> NTFS if you dual-boot Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft
> Windows 98, or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me)
> on the same computer, and do not convert other drives to
> NTFS
> I am using windows xp and do now want other users on the
> computer to view my folders. The little grey box can not
> be ticked. Is there a way to over come this problem?
>
> Any help would be much appreciatied
>
> Cheers
> Marie -mariekinsella41@hotmail.com


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