Roberta said:
Using WIN XP Pro SP2 - set up a limited user account for her, but
when I log on as her (no password), I can still get into every file
on my computer. I thought limited meant the user can't see anything
but what they put on the computer?
Each user gets their own user profile path for document files (it's
under %userprofile%; just enter "%userprofile%" sans quotes into the
address bar in Explorer). When you create account (but only after you
login under that account the first time), a new user profile folder
gets created. It's possible that permissions have been changed to
allow the Everyone group access to your user profile files. Admins
can see them all. Who can read and/or write a file depends on
permissions. There are LOTS of folders and files where the Everyone
group can do whatever they want. After all, if Everyone weren't allow
permission to the C:\ path than no one could do much on their
computer. Use Start -> Help and Support to read up on permissions.
Go to "C:\Documents and Settings" and right-click on each of your user
profile folders. I'm assuming that you haven't moved your user
profile to elsewhere. Under the Security tab for properties on the
profile folders, who is listed as having access?
In Outlook, look at the path to your local message store (i.e., the
..pst file). Right-click on the root node in the tree list,
properties, advanced, and check the path. Then go check permissions
on that file and the folder it is in. Maybe you configure Outlook to
use the same message store .pst file for both accounts. I don't know
where you created the .pst file or what are the permissions on it.
