Hi, Managed to upgrade from Win98 to XP and I need help to keep my private/work documents private. This is the situation I have now: I have created workspace for every member of my family just so that the kids would not mess up with my work documents. However, when they log on my Documents (and everyone elses) appear in 'My Computer' under 'Files stored in this computer' and they can still see and open my folders and files. What I want: That when a person who only has limited rights logs on, all they can see is their own Document's folder and the Shared Folder. Everyone else's does not appear in their area. Can someone help. I hope I managed to explain what I mean. I only did an upgrade. cheers

If you were to do an installation not an upgrade of Windows XP there would be no "My Documents" folder at the root of the C: drive. The my documents folder is normally located in c:\Documents and Settings\login name folder. I think if you were to move the My Documents folder at the root of the C: drive to c:\Documents and settings\login name (login name being the username you use and have administrative priviledges on the local machine)then this should fix the registry as well stop them from accessing this folder while logged in as someone else. You may have to right click on the folder after it's moved and change the security properties of this folder.

Firstly ignore My Documents and make yourself a new folder called 'Stuff to keep' or something like that, then the simple way is to download Magic Folders from www.pc-magic.com All you then do is decide what folders you need to hide from everyone else, then when you shut down, or run Magic Folders manually, the folder(s) magically dissappear. The folders can also be encrypted if you want. I think the encrypted is a pay for but the non-encrypted is free. I've been using it about 2 years for the same reason as you and it's great and simple.

Thanks folks but I solved it another way. I partitioned my drive and installed WinXP on to an NTFS partition. Everyone in the family now have their own folder plus the shared folder when they log on. However, being the administrator, everyone else's folder appears in my area when I log on! Cheers.