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techykelly

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Hello everyone,

I have a client who wants to change access for one of their employees and not allow them to Delete anything on the computer. I believe the computer is running Windows XP and the user is not an admin. Is this possible?
 
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markwp

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Is the client an administrator in windows?

When you say user is not admin, which user?

An administrator can define special privileges for files, folders, etc. by right clicking the folder/file/whatever>security>choose user name in top box>click advanced in lower box for special permissions, edit the special permission and check mark the delete options with "deny".

Mark
 
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techykelly

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The client is the Administrator but the user that they want to keep from deleting files is not an administrator. I will give that a try and see if that solves my problem, thank you.
 
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Hawkeye22

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An admininstrator can change the permissions for files. All accounts belong to the "users" group by default. Changing the permission for "users" to read only will prevent them from deleteing files. Of course, this will effect all users. You could create a new group and make the end user a member of that group, then change the permissions for that group to read-only.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308419

Also, if the PC's are part of a network that uses a domain controller, other permissions may come into play.
 
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