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<blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 1781530" data-attributes="member: 114"><p>xpPro is great (but you are right to worry about locking yourself out of your own machine!)</p><p></p><p>The place where you want to do things is in explorer</p><p></p><p>1. right-click on the folder you want to protect and select 'properties'</p><p></p><p>2. select security tab</p><p></p><p>3. There will be a bunch of 'group or user names' at the top and permissions for each of those in the panel below it.</p><p></p><p>What happens next depends upon how you are currently set up.</p><p></p><p>It might just have 'Everybody' in the top group and full control for everybody in the bottom group. I don't know whether your own userid is part of the administrators group or not, but the easiest thing to do is to make sure your username is in the list.</p><p></p><p>1. click on the Add button and add your username (the check names button in the dialog can be used to confirm you've got your login name exactly right)</p><p></p><p>2. Select your username in the top half of the security tab and then click on 'full control' in the bottom half of the security tab.</p><p></p><p>3. Apply (confirm that you want it to apply to all subfolders and files)</p><p></p><p>4. Do the same thing to give SYSTEM full control</p><p></p><p>then once this has been completed</p><p></p><p>1. Remove 'Everyone' group from the top of the security tab via the remove button.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This should now mean that you and the system can get access to this folder and all its files, but anyone else (e.g. anyone with the guest account) cannot even look into the folder.</p><p></p><p>(DON'T ever do something like "Everyone - deny full control", since NTFS takes the most restrictive interpretation of the options available and will lock you out! That is why you just remove the 'everyone' group from the list)</p><p></p><p>If you're not sure about this process, create a temporary folder with some junk files in and practice on that until you get the results you expect before trying it on your real folders.</p><p></p><p>Cheers</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Plane Sailing, post: 1781530, member: 114"] xpPro is great (but you are right to worry about locking yourself out of your own machine!) The place where you want to do things is in explorer 1. right-click on the folder you want to protect and select 'properties' 2. select security tab 3. There will be a bunch of 'group or user names' at the top and permissions for each of those in the panel below it. What happens next depends upon how you are currently set up. It might just have 'Everybody' in the top group and full control for everybody in the bottom group. I don't know whether your own userid is part of the administrators group or not, but the easiest thing to do is to make sure your username is in the list. 1. click on the Add button and add your username (the check names button in the dialog can be used to confirm you've got your login name exactly right) 2. Select your username in the top half of the security tab and then click on 'full control' in the bottom half of the security tab. 3. Apply (confirm that you want it to apply to all subfolders and files) 4. Do the same thing to give SYSTEM full control then once this has been completed 1. Remove 'Everyone' group from the top of the security tab via the remove button. This should now mean that you and the system can get access to this folder and all its files, but anyone else (e.g. anyone with the guest account) cannot even look into the folder. (DON'T ever do something like "Everyone - deny full control", since NTFS takes the most restrictive interpretation of the options available and will lock you out! That is why you just remove the 'everyone' group from the list) If you're not sure about this process, create a temporary folder with some junk files in and practice on that until you get the results you expect before trying it on your real folders. Cheers [/QUOTE]
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