Preventing the sharing of a drive

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Hi,

Right click the 'my documents' folder and select properties. Flip to the sharing tab and check 'make
this folder private'. This will prevent other users from accessing your personal files stored under
My Documents.

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"The Undertaker" <chrispak9@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Dear All,
> I am a fan of directing "My Documents" to a different drive that the one of the Windows directory
> (usually I have Windows on C, Programs on D, My Documents on E), but the fact is any one who log
> into the computer can easily access my personal files. How can I change that?
> Thanks.
> The Undertaker
>

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True ! And welcome to the ranks once again, Mikhail !

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"Mikhail Zhilin" <mwz@x.REMOVEx.aha.ru> wrote in message
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> And to add: the drive with this folder has to be NTFS, but not FAT
> drive.
>
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> Mikhail Zhilin
> MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
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> Please reply to the newsgroups only.
> ======
> On Sat, 2 Jul 2005 02:26:06 -0300, "Anando [MS-MVP]" <anando@mvps.org>
> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Right click the 'my documents' folder and select properties. Flip to the sharing tab and check
>>'make
>>this folder private'. This will prevent other users from accessing your personal files stored
>>under
>>My Documents.
> <...>
>>"The Undertaker" <chrispak9@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:ehFPATsfFHA.1416@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>> Dear All,
>>> I am a fan of directing "My Documents" to a different drive that the one of the Windows
>>> directory
>>> (usually I have Windows on C, Programs on D, My Documents on E), but the fact is any one who log
>>> into the computer can easily access my personal files. How can I change that?
> <..>
>

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"The Undertaker" <chrispak9@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Dear All,
>I am a fan of directing "My Documents" to a different drive that the one of
>the Windows directory (usually I have Windows on C, Programs on D, My
>Documents on E), but the fact is any one who log into the computer can
>easily access my personal files. How can I change that?
>Thanks.
>The Undertaker
>

If you have XP Pro and the documents are on an NTFS drive then you can
set the access permissions to prevent other users from accessing them.

If you have XP Home and the documents drive is NTFS you can set
permissions by first booting into Safe Mode.

Good luck


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