Make folders private...

[Greg]

Have 4 other users all setup as Amins but I want to make each of the user
personal folders private. Was easy enough in XP in fact it just asked me if
I wanted to. Anyone shed some insight into how this is done in Vista?

TIA,

-Greg

 

[Robert Firth]

You could change the permissions on the folders. Right click on the folder,
select properties, open the security tab, click the "edit" button, and
remove the other users from the dialog that appears by highlighting their
username and clicking "remove". Just don't remove yourself.

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[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Greg;
"Was easy enough in XP"
It is also easy for any of the Administrators to gain access to anyone
else's documents.
Any Administrator can do and undo anything an other Administrator can do.
The chances of assured privacy are far less when others are also
Administrators.

Consider not making everyone an Administrator.

 

[SteveC]

I changed other user to Standard user and it made no difference. You can go straight into my documents files, my favorites, my history, etc. What kind of security is that? Is there anyway to do this right? Thanks.
Greg;
"Was easy enough in XP"
It is also easy for any of the Administrators to gain access to anyone
else's documents.
Any Administrator can do and undo anything an other Administrator can do.
The chances of assured privacy are far less when others are also
Administrators.

Consider not making everyone an Administrator.

 

[SteveC]

I was able to do it in permissions but got warnings all over the place that denying to this user might cause trouble. It seems to be ok; I have all the shared stuff in the Public folders, so maybe it will work. I have Ultimate, which uses the more complicated networking scheme (a la XP Professional) and I assume that Vista Home is more like the XP Home.
I changed other user to Standard user and it made no difference. You can go straight into my documents files, my favorites, my history, etc. What kind of security is that? Is there anyway to do this right? Thanks.
Greg;
"Was easy enough in XP"
It is also easy for any of the Administrators to gain access to anyone
else's documents.
Any Administrator can do and undo anything an other Administrator can do.
The chances of assured privacy are far less when others are also
Administrators.

Consider not making everyone an Administrator.