||| "Mike" <
[email protected]>
||| wrote in message ||| The above section of My Computers show up only Shared
||| Documents and one other normal user's Documents. Not mine.
||| I'm logged in as a normal (restricted) user. Why don't others
||| appear? <SNIP>
|| "Carrie Garth" <
[email protected]>
|| wrote in message || See the WORKAROUND section in the following Microsoft
|| Knowledge Base article: KB319825 <SNIP>
| "Mike B" <
[email protected]>
| wrote in message | Thanks for the reply. I guess a follow-up question is:
| should one restricted user directory be accessible by
| another restricted user? By default, shouldn't the My
| Docs folder be NOT shared to other restricted users,
| and hence NOT appear in My Computer?
On my installations of Microsoft Windows XP
Professional, when I logon as an Administrator and create
two new limited users (LimitedUser1 and LimitedUser2),
then logon to the computer using those accounts and view
the "Files Stored on This Computer" heading in My
Computer, the only folders visible to LimitedUser1 are:
"Shared Documents" and "LimitedUser1's Documents".
And the only folders visible to LimitedUser2 are:
"Shared Documents" and "LimitedUser2's Documents".
And the only way I am able to view "LimitedUser2's
Documents" while logged on as LimitedUser1 is to:
- Install Microsoft Windows XP on a partition formatted with NTFS
- Logon as an Administrator
- Disable Simple File Sharing
- Use Windows Explorer to display
C:\Documents and Settings\LimitedUser2\My Documents
- Right-click the folder, choose Properties, select the Security
tab, click the Add button to add LimitedUser1, click Apply
and click OK.
BTW, I tried sharing the LimitedUser2 folder and that did not
cause "LimitedUser2's Documents" to show up when I logged
on as LimitedUser1 and viewed the "Files Stored on This
Computer" heading in My Computer. So I do not think the
problem is related to File Sharing.
Also, I also tried giving full-control permission to Everyone on the
applicable registry key (listed in KB319825) and that did not
cause "LimitedUser2's Documents" to show up when I logged
on as LimitedUser1 and viewed the "Files Stored on This
Computer" heading in My Computer. So I do not think the
problem is related to registry key permissions.
Note: I am unable to find any Microsoft documentation on the
subject. However, I did Google and found a reference to
TweakUI being able to control this. So if you have TweakUI
(or a similar 3rd party tweaking application) installed you may
want to check its settings.
| The KB article talks about shared directories not
| appearing, but in my case it's the reverse where a
| directory IS appearing and which perhaps shouldn't?
The KB article explains how an Administrator could use the
registry editor to correct the problem of your documents
folder not appearing when you view the "Files Stored on
This Computer" heading in My Computer.
| I do notice that when logged on as an Admin, all
| directories appear in My Computer, which is what
| I would expect. Mike
Yes. That is correct.
