Re: Private Folders

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From: E McCann (love.nodotshere.myquadra_at_mad.scientist.com)
Date: 03/16/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:02:10 -0800

Only one thing - to get to this in Home, you have to restart in Safe mode.
There's no "Security" tab otherwise.

"purplehaz" <software@for.me> wrote in message
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> This information can be found in Help and Support by searching for
> ownership.
>
>
>
> To take ownership of a file or folder
>
> Open Windows Explorer, and then locate the file or folder you want to take
> ownership of.
>
> Right-click the file or folder, click Properties, and then click the
> Security tab.
>
> Click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab.
>
> In the Change owner to box, click the new owner.
>
> (Optional) To change the owner of all subcontainers and objects within the
> tree, select the Replace owner on subcontainers and objects check box.
>
>
>
> Notes:
>
> To open Windows Explorer, click Start, point to All Programs, point to
> Accessories, and then click Windows Explorer.
>
> If you are not joined to a domain and want to view the Security tab, see
To
> display the Security tab.
>
> You can transfer ownership in two ways:
>
> The current owner can grant the Take ownership permission to others,
> allowing those users to take ownership at any time.
>
> An administrator can take ownership of any file on the computer. However,
> the administrator cannot transfer ownership to others. This restriction
> keeps the administrator accountable.
>
> In Windows XP Professional, the Everyone group no longer includes the
> Anonymous Logon group.
>
>
>
> Peter Gould wrote:
> > I am running XP Home edition and my HDD has crashed and
> > only is recognised occasionally by the BIOS. So I have
> > purchased a new HDD and reinstalled XP. I have set the
> > broken HDD as a slave and occasionally it gets picked up
> > during the boot. Good I thought I can now copy my data
> > files to my HDD. However the My Documents folder is
> > protected and I can no longer get the access. This
> > combined with the old HDD freezing is very frustrating.
> > Any ideas how I can access the folder?
>
> 

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