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Name: N ick
Date: December 11, 2003 at 00:47:04 Pacific
OS: xp pro
CPU/Ram: 1.3 ghz / 256
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I am running xp pro on my box with several users. Everyone has a secure password. I was wondering how to disable the other users (who have limited accounts) from accessing the hard drive and/or certain folders. I am the Admin with full access. Simple file sharing is disabled. We all use the same comp



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Name: rory
Date: December 11, 2003 at 06:42:02 Pacific
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If your disk is formatted using NTFS then you can simply use permissions that can restrict drives and folders.

Hope this helps


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Name: Nick
Date: December 12, 2003 at 00:33:05 Pacific
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when i installed XP pro i used fat32. To this day i don't really know why. I think it was mainly because the drive has 3 partitions and the others are fat32. Is there a way to do it with fat32? Can you change the disks format without formatting the drive? thanks


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