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re: Protect folders/files from other users
Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 4:30 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Joe
(64 messages posted)
Thanks for the reply. I wish I could use NTFS but I have some (and the other roommate)
older programs that won't work with it. I've found a third party program but haven't
been able to set it up yet.
On Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 2:32 pm, ColinB wrote:
>Joe,
>
>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
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