Hi, Can anyone tell me how to protect my folders and files from other users who log onto my computer? I suspect that one of my roommates is peering into my folder inside of Documents and Settings. Can I restrict the access of my user account folder in there?

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Joe 
Ask your Admin. to set it up for you or ask him/she to let your install a program 
that will let you put a pass word for your folders and files...
You can check out the programs you can get to do this at download.com...
hope this helps






On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at 5:09 pm, Joe wrote:
>Hi,
>Can anyone tell me how to protect my folders and files from other users who log 
onto 
>my computer?  I suspect that one of my roommates is peering into my folder inside 
>of Documents and Settings.  Can I restrict the access of my user account folder 
in 
>there?

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Well, it is my computer, I share it with my 2 roommates. Do you have any particular program in mind? Cause I went to that site and didn't really see anything that looked like what you described. It's really important that I block the whole folder, I'd hate to go and try to password protect tons of files, one at a time. And the other roommate says he is doing it everytime he logs on.


On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at 7:16 pm, DEX wrote:

>Joe 
>Ask your Admin. to set it up for you or ask him/she to let your install a program 
>that will let you put a pass word for your folders and files...
>You can check out the programs you can get to do this at download.com...
>hope this helps
>
>

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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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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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You might want to look at this sites solution to your problem: "find.pcworld.com/38702". This is a stand alone utility for the NTFS/FAT32 file system to cure your ills.


On Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 4:30 pm, Joe wrote:
>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.
>

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