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| Thread ID: 29548 | 2003-01-24 03:13:00 | windows xp personalizing folders | Jockwhiteside (2566) | Press F1 |
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| 116269 | 2003-01-24 03:13:00 | I have two users on my computer i am the admin and the other account is limited i have personalized my folders like the desktop and start menu but i have two partions on my computer drive C and D i want it so that i can personalize folders on drive D so that only i can see them. I have been trying to do this for sometime and i was wondering if you know how i can do it i dont mind editing the registry even if it has to be done every time the user logs on i could make a program to do it for me. But i was just wondering if there was a way that it can allready be done without me having to make a program to do it for me. Thanks - Jock Whiteside http://forum.internal-technologies.com/ |
Jockwhiteside (2566) | ||
| 116270 | 2003-01-24 04:06:00 | Rightclick on the D drive and select properties. It should tell you what File System it's using, if it says NTFS you can do the following, but if it says FAT32 you'll need to get yourself a copy (or demo) of PQMagic's Partition Magic and change the file system. If it's in NTFS format, you can locate the folders you want to "hide", open the properties for those folders, and click on the Advanced button under either the main tab or the Security tab - I can't remember. There you can specify which users can access and see the folder. |
agent (30) | ||
| 116271 | 2003-01-24 06:19:00 | lol I found the tab and all but it says to make this folder private tick this box and the box is disabled. I could just get the handle of the checkbox and enable it but im sure that would stuff things up. So how do i get it so that its enabled? |
Jockwhiteside (2566) | ||
| 116272 | 2003-01-24 06:26:00 | heres a screen shot it migth help a little www.kazaaslittlehelper.orcon.net.nz |
Jockwhiteside (2566) | ||
| 116273 | 2003-01-24 06:30:00 | Thnk you'll find the Advanced button on the General tab. And the hard drives File System as explained above. | agent (30) | ||
| 116274 | 2003-01-24 07:19:00 | Nope i cant find it i looked high and low i have NTFS file system. I could not find what you were talking about may be cause im sleepy but i cant see it at all. | Jockwhiteside (2566) | ||
| 116275 | 2003-01-24 07:22:00 | To make your folders private Open My Computer . Double-click the drive where Windows is installed (usually drive (C: ), unless you have more than one drive on your computer) . If the contents of the drive are hidden, under System Tasks, click Show the contents of this drive . Double-click the Documents and Settings folder . Double-click your user folder . Right-click any folder in your user profile, and then click Properties . On the Sharing tab, select the Make this folder private so that only I have access to it check box . Notes This option is only available for folders included in your user profile . Folders in your user profile include My Documents and its subfolders, Desktop, Start Menu, Cookies, and Favorites . If you do not make these folders private, they are available to everyone who uses your computer . When you make a folder private, all of its subfolders are private as well . You cannot make your folders private if your drive is not formatted as NTFS . So . . . if it doesn't meet the above, that could explain the problem? (the above from XP Help) |
godfather (25) | ||
| 116276 | 2003-01-24 07:29:00 | I finally rememberd I have an NTFS partition on this computer. Select the folder you want to change, and open it's Properties. If the drive (or partition) that the folder resides on is formatted in the NTFS partition, you should have a tab called Security. On this tab you can change permissions for the folder and who has those permissions. If you don't have the Security tab, then either something's different in XP (not from memory), or your computer isn't enabled to do this, and I'm not sure how to do that. |
agent (30) | ||
| 116277 | 2003-01-24 07:32:00 | sal.neoburn.net | agent (30) | ||
| 116278 | 2003-01-24 07:34:00 | When you right click on the folder, dont choose properties, choose "sharing and security". Setting the option in here (if available, needs NTFS) then allows the option to be enabled in the "properties" function. | godfather (25) | ||
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