Restricting Access

[Colin]

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I have two hard drives one of which contains my back ups, can anyone tell he
how to lock access to this drive to adminstrator only passwords on WinXP Home
please.

 

[Guest]

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"Colin" <Colin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AC098ABE-C1D3-4B7B-8FB6-B09AC5EBCBAA@microsoft.com...
> I have two hard drives one of which contains my back ups, can anyone tell
he
> how to lock access to this drive to adminstrator only passwords on WinXP
Home
> please.

You won't be able to encrypt on Home, but perhaps the following URL
discussing folder permissions will help:

http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xpperm/xpPerm1.htm

HTH
-pk

 

[Guest]

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Thank you for the information and URL. I have never seen a site with more
useful information. Again THANKS


"Test User" <test@dev.null> wrote in message
news:mywfd.6709$rs5.525555@news20.bellglobal.com...
> "Colin" <Colin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AC098ABE-C1D3-4B7B-8FB6-B09AC5EBCBAA@microsoft.com...
>> I have two hard drives one of which contains my back ups, can anyone tell
> he
>> how to lock access to this drive to adminstrator only passwords on WinXP
> Home
>> please.
>
> You won't be able to encrypt on Home, but perhaps the following URL
> discussing folder permissions will help:
>
> http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xpperm/xpPerm1.htm
>
> HTH
> -pk
>
>


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