what actually happens when you choose 'yes' to this question?

[djc]

xp pro sp2. When you set a password for an account this question is asked of
you: "Do you want to make your files and folders private?".

I have a different, much longer post, that I am not getting any feedback on
so I am breaking this up into several more straight forward questions.

1) what exactly happens if you say 'yes'?

1b) and more specifically, are any registry permissions changed?

if you know please enlighten me.
Thanks.

 

[Paul Smith]

1) what exactly happens if you say 'yes'?

It will lock your documents etc so other local users will be unable to view
them.

1b) and more specifically, are any registry permissions changed?

I wouldn't think so.

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
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[Phil]

If you mark your files and folders as private it will make your my documents
folder and its subfolders accessible to only you. Other users on the machine
cannot access your private folders. Private folders only work on the my
documents folder and its subfolders.

 

[Alex Nichol]

xp pro sp2. When you set a password for an account this question is asked of
you: "Do you want to make your files and folders private?".

I have a different, much longer post, that I am not getting any feedback on
so I am breaking this up into several more straight forward questions.

1) what exactly happens if you say 'yes'?

Other accounts will be prevented from seeing your folders when they log
on

1b) and more specifically, are any registry permissions changed?

This relates to access permissions on an NTFS drive and is handles in
its data structures, not in the registry
FAT32 gives no real protection on personal files

 

[djc]

the reason I ask is that I did say 'yes' to this question. The user account
/ profile that I did this with was then copied to the Default Users's
profile. Well, first it failed because of the NTFS permission changes on the
Documents and Settings folders.. but I added the local admin account back to
those folders and the copy operation finished without an error. BUT, since a
user profile is stored in those folders AND portions are registry
settings... I thought maybe if permissions were changed on these registry
keys when I chose 'yes' to making the items private, that may cause an
incomplete copy of the profile. And I was wondering about that because new
user accounts on this machine are now screwy.... user cannot change power
scheme options for example even though they are a member of the the Power
Users group, and the desktop color is not what it should be.

I have recently heard that the once reccomended method of installing all
apps as a user who belongs to the local admin group and then copying that
user profile over the Default User profile as a part of preparing a machine
to be imaged is no longer reccomended and can cause problems.. do you know
anything about that?

thanks for the reply!