Re: XP Home permission rights

correomaster wrote:
Hello there!

I am trying to keep a specific folder unacessible for another user in
my PC. I am running XP Home SP2 (NTFS formatted). We are both
administrators.


Then you cannot do what you want. So long as the other user have administrative privileges, he/she can access *anythng* on the hard drive.




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