Access rights on drives and folders

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Walter Cohen

I have 3 user accounts on Vista Home Premium. One is an admin account and
the other two are limited accounts.
How can I 'hide' a folder (created on my admin account) from the 2 limited
user accounts? If I can't hide it then how can I prohibit read/write access
to it?

Also this is odd but on my admin account I cannot create and save afile to
the C: (root) drive. I get a pop-up stating "You don't have permission to
save in this location. Contact the Administrator to obtain permission.
Would you like to save in the Documents folder instead?"
I am already logged in on the Admin account so what gives and how can I fix
this?

Thanks,
Walter
 
Walter Cohen said:
I have 3 user accounts on Vista Home Premium. One is an admin account and
the other two are limited accounts.
How can I 'hide' a folder (created on my admin account) from the 2 limited
user accounts? If I can't hide it then how can I prohibit read/write
access to it?
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Hello Walter.

Yes the simplest way would be to put this folder under your User folder.
They won't have read access to it there, unless you've shared your profile.

Else you can right-click a folder, go to properties and from the security
tab, deny read or write access to the users in question.
Also this is odd but on my admin account I cannot create and save afile to
the C: (root) drive. I get a pop-up stating "You don't have permission to
save in this location. Contact the Administrator to obtain permission.
Would you like to save in the Documents folder instead?"
I am already logged in on the Admin account so what gives and how can I
fix this?
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Typically I wouldn't recommend doing this. This is what the user folders
are for. To do it you'll need to elevate Explorer by right-clicking and
running it as an administrator. By default applications run with standard
rights even on the administrator's desktop.
 
Thank you!
Paul Smith said:
Hello Walter.

Yes the simplest way would be to put this folder under your User folder.
They won't have read access to it there, unless you've shared your
profile.

Else you can right-click a folder, go to properties and from the security
tab, deny read or write access to the users in question.


Typically I wouldn't recommend doing this. This is what the user folders
are for. To do it you'll need to elevate Explorer by right-clicking and
running it as an administrator. By default applications run with standard
rights even on the administrator's desktop.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/
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Walter said:
I have 3 user accounts on Vista Home Premium. One is an admin account
and the other two are limited accounts.
How can I 'hide' a folder (created on my admin account) from the 2
limited user accounts? If I can't hide it then how can I prohibit
read/write access to it?
Click to expand...

You remove their accounts off of the file or folder, and they can't
access it.
Also this is odd but on my admin account I cannot create and save afile
to the C: (root) drive. I get a pop-up stating "You don't have
permission to save in this location. Contact the Administrator to
obtain permission. Would you like to save in the Documents folder instead?"
I am already logged in on the Admin account so what gives and how can I
fix this?
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You're not admin on the machine with full rights. There is only one
admin account on the machine that has full rights.

<http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...idden-administrator-account-on-windows-vista/>

The other way to gain full access to a file or folder using you're admin
account is to put the Everyone account on the file or folder to match
your Administrator account rights.

Or the other thing you can do is set machine-name(machine-name\your user
account) to match the rights of the Administrators account, if your
logged-on using your account.
 
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