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Name: Tim Letendre
Date: January 6, 2002 at 16:38:23 Pacific
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I installed XP pro last night, and I really like it so far. But I have one question, how do I make it so only I can access my documents and settings? When I logged in as guest, to test it, I could still access the admin's documents and settings. When I right click on the folder and go to the sharing tab, the option to make it private is greyed out. So how do I make a folder only visable by one user(and the admin of course).



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Name: Flippity VanHormerbo
Date: January 6, 2002 at 19:03:23 Pacific
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XP must be instaled using an ntfs partition to take advantage of the file locking feature. The greyed out thing makes me think you are using FAT32


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Name: Tim Letendre
Date: January 6, 2002 at 20:38:32 Pacific
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Damn, damn, damn.
Well thanks for the help.



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Response Number 3
Name: TechGod
Date: January 6, 2002 at 21:55:31 Pacific
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When you right click on the folder or file

and click properties accros the top you should have general sharing web sharing and customize...

at the bottom of general is advanced if you put a check in encrypt contents to secure data, click ok than apply, than apply changes to folder subfolder and files than OK again than only the account that created the attribute can access the file...


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