In order to set permissions on your folders and files, you need to have an NTFS formatted disk, rather than a FAT32 disk (right click on the disk in My Computer and select 'Properties' to see what you have).

There is a program in Win2k to convert from a Win32 filesystem to NTFS, but no way of going back without using commercial software

Once you have NTFS in place, you must ensure that the other users on the system are not part of the 'Administrators' group, otherwise they can reset the permissions you have set to lock them out of your personal files

To look further into this, try Googling on 'NTFS permissions'

Colin

Written in response to: re: Protect folders/files from other users (Joe: Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 7:58 am) Responses to this message: re: Protect folders/files from other users (Joe: Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 4:30 pm)

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