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Hi again!

I was trying to make a privete folders on my XPSP2 PC. I searched the help topicsand found only this:

Microsoft wrote: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.

Sounds stupid. Also I know that I can make some folders private, I mean only avalable for me and not accessible for the other users ... Any ideas how to do this?

Right click the folder->Properties->Sharing->Make this folder private

But like it said, it will only work if you're in /documents and settings/user/...

XP is silly sometime

Then again, don't some people say that Microsoft in general is silly?

The other part of it is that you need your WindBlows partition formatted in the NTFS ... FATxx doesn't allow "private home directories."

If you go the dual-boot way later on, It gets to be a real bitch when you have to either say "I am making Win writeable in Linux, but sacrificing privacy," or you go with "Win privacy, but read-only from Linux," as (so far), there is very limited support for writing to NTFS in Linux.

Captive (NTFS rw)

Yep, I've already suffered the read-olny thing as I'м усинг NTFS.

However at work we use Windows as well (W2K) and there I have limited access to some folders ... is it because it's installed other edition of Windows (some corp. edition or something)?

There sure is SOME write support for NTFS in Linux but its limited as of now. Reading is clean and I don't care if I can't write because I just need to play some music

Try some software .. there are many software for security purposes ..

you install them ,they run in hidden process..and save them from others

But if some is Devil's Mind like our admins ,,they'll get ur data easily ..
thats a drawback of XP windows...OS

regards,
Asrar.

All those functionalities (including third-party software) give only provisional security. If anybody affords to steal your hard-drive, then he gets access, regardless of what you do.

Microsoft offers an encrypted filesystem for professional and server versions (I believe). It's called EFS. You don't get certain security, but attacks to your filesystem become less trivial.

try with useraccounts in control panel not giving much but ok
but if you realy want some more security get linux

No matter what u do, you cannot hide ur directories from the Admin of the machine, unless ur account has admin access too.