Private files

[W. Guy Delaney]

My two children are using Windows XP on their computer. Each has
Administrator rights on the computer. The computer has two hard drives.
Drive D: is used to store all their documents. Drive C: is used for their
applications. Logged in as each child, I have clicked on the desktop icon My
Computer, chosen Properties and then chosen the option Move and then moved
each of the children's documents to what I thought was their own private My
Documents on D:/.

To my surprise, the children's files are not private. For instance under My
Documents, the My Word folder is shared.

This is not so much a security issue as it is of just keeping each child's
files separate so that there is no danger of one child deleting the other
child's documents.

How can I make the My Documents folder for each child private? Do I create a
folder for each, such as Jane's Documents and William's Documents and then
place folders, such as My Word, My Excel, etc under both?

 

[Rob Schneider]

There really is no such thing in nomenclature of XP about "private"
documents and folders. By implementing the appropriate "permissions"
you can achieve "privacy" and "security".

At this juncture, the best thing for you to do is read the articles in
XP's help on "System Administration". This will give you the basics and
specifics for what to do.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Rifleman]

My two children are using Windows XP on their computer. Each has
Administrator rights on the computer.
Ouch!


To my surprise, the children's files are not private. For instance under My
Documents, the My Word folder is shared.

Administrators have access to EVERYTHING!

This is not so much a security issue as it is of just keeping each child's
files separate so that there is no danger of one child deleting the other
child's documents.

Change their accounts to limited users - then they can't access, they can
only access their own "My Documents" folder and more to the point, they
can't foul anything up systemwise, either!

 

[Doug]

You need to be the sole administrator, then create individual accounts for
each child. This would ensure the integrity and security of each others data
with you being the only user with full system access.
Cheers Doug