Thursday, July 16, 2009

How to make the Drive/Folder/File Private in Windows XP

Windows XP or the operating systems supporting NTFS may provide a file level security. you can make the drives, folders and files unaccessible in other accounts. For this here are some very simple steps:
1. Right Click on the Folder/Drive/File , that you want to make private.
2. Select the Properties.
3. Select the Security Tab from the dialog Box opened. (If there is no such tab then enable it by using steps given other blog entry)
4. In the security tab remove the users that you dont want to permit to see those files(Do not Remove Administrators and system Users).
5. Remove the Authenticated users also (this group contain all users(limited and simple)).
Now your folder/file/drive is private and no other user can access it.

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