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Hi. I am trying to configure a laptop for a non technical friend which has
WinXp Pro Sp2.
She normally logs in with an administrator privileged account, but I had
done some
work on her pc and accidentally left the os and hidden files visible and she
deleted them
thinking they were junk. Of course this took 4 days and data recovery
software (no backup) to repair this mess!!
I would prefer to leave her with admin privs, however, using explorer, the
double pane tree viewof the windows folder, the right pane is blued out with
the os system file warning,
but the left pane tree view still shows the folders in the windows
directory, which I'm afraid that she may mistake again (less likely that
she's been warned, but I want to make this foolproof).
Is there any way to hide the windows sub folders in the left pane tree
view(prevent the subtree/folders form being listed), or a way to
hide the folders I deem need to be hideable better???
I tried experimenting with the desktop.ini file in the windows directory,
but it gets reset when the computer is rebooted. I tried changing the
privileges for the windows folder, removing the "list folder contents"
attribute, but that unchecks other privs, and doesn't seem to work. There
are a few "hide and lock and or encrypt" folders products on the market, but
I'm not sure if they are stable and reliable. I really don't need to lock
the
folders, just prevent their viewing, unless necesssary.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Hi. I am trying to configure a laptop for a non technical friend which has
WinXp Pro Sp2.
She normally logs in with an administrator privileged account, but I had
done some
work on her pc and accidentally left the os and hidden files visible and she
deleted them
thinking they were junk. Of course this took 4 days and data recovery
software (no backup) to repair this mess!!
I would prefer to leave her with admin privs, however, using explorer, the
double pane tree viewof the windows folder, the right pane is blued out with
the os system file warning,
but the left pane tree view still shows the folders in the windows
directory, which I'm afraid that she may mistake again (less likely that
she's been warned, but I want to make this foolproof).
Is there any way to hide the windows sub folders in the left pane tree
view(prevent the subtree/folders form being listed), or a way to
hide the folders I deem need to be hideable better???
I tried experimenting with the desktop.ini file in the windows directory,
but it gets reset when the computer is rebooted. I tried changing the
privileges for the windows folder, removing the "list folder contents"
attribute, but that unchecks other privs, and doesn't seem to work. There
are a few "hide and lock and or encrypt" folders products on the market, but
I'm not sure if they are stable and reliable. I really don't need to lock
the
folders, just prevent their viewing, unless necesssary.
Any suggestions would be welcome.