Accessing Private Folders Secretly

[Guest]

I have set up Win XP Pro SP2 with seperate accounts for my family. My
daughter has made her Documents folder private. I can log on as the
Administrator but I cannot access her files. Is there a way to do so and not
let her know? She's getting a bit wild and I need to stoop to snooping to
find out what's going on.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have set up Win XP Pro SP2 with seperate accounts for my family. My
daughter has made her Documents folder private. I can log on as the
Administrator but I cannot access her files. Is there a way to do so and not
let her know? She's getting a bit wild and I need to stoop to snooping to
find out what's going on.

You can seize ownership of her folders but it will
be visible to anyone who cares to look. There is
also the other aspect: Whether you should snoop
in things that she obviously wishes to keep private.
When you were at her age, how would you have
responded it your father had prised open your
locked diary? Wouldn't the relationship have
deteriorated badly after such a blatant breach
of trust?

 

[Brian A.]

It appears respect and trust has flown the family coop.
Have you tried asking her to show you the contents with an explanation on why
your curiosity is peaked, or has communication flown the coop as well?

If you must:
How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421

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[Uncle Joe]

I don't know how to solve your access problem, but you
have my sympathies insofar as dealing with a "wild" or
rebellious daughter. Went through that two decades ago,
and it was difficult to protect my daughter from herself.
Never opened her diary (not that I wasn't tempted) but
took many other steps.

These days, with sexual predators lurking under every
stone, one doesn't know what malignant creatures our
children and grandchildren are "conversing" with. or
the kinds of porno they're downloading. I wouldn't
hesitate to "spy" on my children today to save them
from their wild, rebellious "I know best" attitudes if
only I could. Someday, your daughter will thank you
for caring back when she was young and wild.

 

[David Candy]

Cause not. A design goal of windows was never to allow spying.

 

[Uncle Joe]

I don't agree: a parent has all the rights in the world to "spy"
on his/her's son/daughter to protect them from the filth on
the Net, in email, and from predators in chat rooms.

If Microsoft doesn't support parental control over their children's
activities while logged on, well, it should provide those controls.

At businesses, employers exercise their legal rights to monitor
every second of their employees' activities while logged in.

"David Candy" <.> wrote in message
Cause not. A design goal of windows was never to allow spying.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I don't agree: a parent has all the rights in the world to "spy"
on his/her's son/daughter to protect them from the filth on
the Net, in email, and from predators in chat rooms.

If Microsoft doesn't support parental control over their children's
activities while logged on, well, it should provide those controls.

At businesses, employers exercise their legal rights to monitor
every second of their employees' activities while logged in.

An employer who exercises this legal right without making it
abundantly clear to his employees (in writing) is in for some
serious legal trouble. The subject of this thread is "Accessing
Private Folders Secretly". The OP has no intention of letting
his daughter know what he is up to.

Consider the implications of his daughter finding out the
sneaky ways of her father.

 

[David Candy]

It doesn't matter what you think. It's designed to not allow spying. Please explain how it allows spying as you disagreed with that statement but did not mention in any way HOW is is designed to allow spying.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I don't agree: a parent has all the rights in the world to "spy"
on his/her's son/daughter to protect them from the filth on
the Net, in email, and from predators in chat rooms.

A "parent" that needs to spy to "protect" his/her children has already
failed, and failed miserably.



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[Brian A.]

I don't agree: a parent has all the rights in the world to "spy"
on his/her's son/daughter to protect them from the filth on
the Net, in email, and from predators in chat rooms.

Then they may as well quit their job and pump up the legs for travel so they
can hide behind bushes, cars, buildings, etc. There's more filth just outside
the front door and no amount of spying behind ones back will protect them, nor
will it in syberspace.


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Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375