User Account - limited

[Guest]

I have been trying out setting up a limited user account as I am to have a
house guest for several months. I setup the account and then switched to
sign into the account. I was surprised to find that whilst signed on as the
limited use, I could access the files in my administartor account. I had
assumed that this account would be only have access to its own files and
would not have access to the files of any other user, limited user or
otherwise. WWhat am I doing wrong?

 

[Dennis Barbier]

I have been trying out setting up a limited user account as I am to have a
house guest for several months. I setup the account and then switched to
sign into the account. I was surprised to find that whilst signed on as the
limited use, I could access the files in my administartor account. I had
assumed that this account would be only have access to its own files and
would not have access to the files of any other user, limited user or
otherwise. WWhat am I doing wrong?

What file system is your hard disk formatted as?
Fat? or NTFS?

 

[Jim Hill]

[...] I was surprised to find that whilst signed on as the limited use,
I could access the files in my administrator account.

Quick fix if your box is up-to-date and nobody's been mucking with it:
1) Right-click "My Documents", "Properties"
2) Choose the "Sharing" tab
3) "Make this folder private".

If you want to keep a good kid or a basically decent adult from
inappropriate snooping, that ought to do the trick.

Jim

 

[Gilbert Baron]

[...] I was surprised to find that whilst signed on as the limited use,
I could access the files in my administrator account.

Quick fix if your box is up-to-date and nobody's been mucking with it:
1) Right-click "My Documents", "Properties"
2) Choose the "Sharing" tab
3) "Make this folder private".

If you want to keep a good kid or a basically decent adult from
inappropriate snooping, that ought to do the trick.

Jim

You still have access to everything that is not in the Documents
folder except maybe programs. I think if you are not using XP-Pro,
this is the best that you can do, not very good.