Setting Permissions on XP Home

[BobV]

Group:

How do I set Permissions on my computer running Windows XP Home Edition?
Everything I have read says to right-click on the folder, select Properties,
and then select the Security tab. I don't see a tab called Security. All I
see is a Sharing tab and it doesn't have a button on it to set Permissions.
The Sharing tab has two sections on it: (1) Local Sharing & Security with a
button that says "Make this folder private.", and (2) Network Sharing &
Security with a button on it that says "Share this folder on the network".
Nowhere on the Sharing tab is there a Permissions button to press. My drive
is formatted as NTFS, and I am logged as an administrator.

What am I doing wrong? How do I set the Permissions to a folder using
Windows XP Home?

Thanks,
BobV

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Group:

How do I set Permissions on my computer running Windows XP Home Edition?
Everything I have read says to right-click on the folder, select Properties,
and then select the Security tab. I don't see a tab called Security. All I
see is a Sharing tab and it doesn't have a button on it to set Permissions.
The Sharing tab has two sections on it: (1) Local Sharing & Security with a
button that says "Make this folder private.", and (2) Network Sharing &
Security with a button on it that says "Share this folder on the network".
Nowhere on the Sharing tab is there a Permissions button to press. My drive
is formatted as NTFS, and I am logged as an administrator.

What am I doing wrong? How do I set the Permissions to a folder using
Windows XP Home?

Thanks,
BobV

For WinXP Home, you need to reboot into Safe Mode and log in as
Administrator. (You also have to be using the NTFS file system, of
course; FAT32 has no security capabilities.)


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[Steven L Umbach]

In XP Home you either need to use a command line tool such as cacls or boot
into Safe Mode, logon as the administrator and then configure permission
assuming you use NTFS file system. If you are not using NTFS you can convert
to it without losing any data. See the link below for more details. ---
Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418

 

[BobV]

Group:

Thanks for the help. I wonder why Microsoft didn't make it easier to set the
permissions on XP Home Edition. Going into Safe Mode or using cscls.exe to
set them is not an elegant solution.

BobV

 

[Guest]

In addition, though this is not recommended, you may use the Windows NT 4.0
File Manager to set permissions. Beware that it uses the older security model
and it may not be fully compatible with security descriptors of some files.
I'd suggest using the winfile.exe from Service Pack 6a.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

I believe that did that to keep people from easily messing with permissions
since XP Home is targeted to the home market. Changing a few wrong
permissions will prevent a user from being able to logon to the
mputer. --- Steve