Re: User Accounts

From: Bruce Chambers (bruce_a_chambers_at_h0tmail.com)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:54:56 -0700

newbie wrote:
> In my computer I am having one Administrator account , one limited account
> and visitors account. (created in place of guest account). Now I find that
> even from limited account and visitors account I can access files created in
> Administrators account via c:\documents and settings. As I would like to
> keep my documents in Administrators account private, is there any way to set
> up files in my document so that accept administrator, no one else can have
> access to my documents.
> TIA.
>
>

     Under normal circumstances, you can safely convert the partition to
NTFS whenever desired, without having to format the partition and
reinstall everything. As always when performing any serious changes,
back up any important data before proceeding, just in case. A little
advance preparation is also strongly recommended, so you can avoid any
performance hits caused by the default cluster size:

Converting FAT32 to NTFS in Windows
http://www.aumha.org/a/ntfscvt.htm

        Once you've converted to a securable file system:

HOW TO Create and Configure User Accounts in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279783

HOW TO Set, View, Change, or Remove File and Folder Permissions
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q308418 

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