I've just recently installed win2k at home and everything's working fine. I'm now adding some users at home and need to restrict access to certain files and folders, easy! Now the problem, whenever I reference the online help or a book it will mention, "Select the Security Tab." I'm pulling my hair out at this point. While selecting properties for anything on my system, a "Security Tab" is not available anywhere. I get the standard general,tools,harware, sharing but no security. I've looked at my laptop at work running Win2k and it displays this tab between tools and sharing. How do I enable this tab on my home machine.

The Security Tab is located in the Properties section. If you right click on a file or folder in Explorer and select Properties you should see a General, Sharing, and Security Tab. HOWEVER, your problem may be that you have your HD formatted in FAT32. The security tab is only available with the NTFS file system. No NTFS, no security. You can convert to NTFS without any data loss by typing the following command. To convert the D:\ drive for example, at a command prompt type - convert d:\ /fs:ntfs Once you convert to NTFS you can not go back to FAT32 again using the convert utility. There are 3rd party utilities such as Partition Magic that will allow this however. So, the question is - Is your HD FAT32 or NTFS??

Thanks Glen, that solves it. It was formatted with FAT32. I'll do the conversion. Thanks again - Monty

After re-reading my post I see I have a slight typo. The command would actually be convert d: /fs:ntfs