Here's an item posters have asked for

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R. McCarty said:
Microsoft Private Folder Version 1.0
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/offers/
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The enterprise people are already up in arms over this one. What do you do
in the workplace when someone forgets their password for their private
folder, and that person has to deliver a sensitive presentation to his boss
in three hours (held in the private folder - of course).

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Richard said:
The enterprise people are already up in arms over this one. What do you
do in the workplace when someone forgets their password for their
private folder, and that person has to deliver a sensitive presentation
to his boss in three hours (held in the private folder - of course).
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It probably can be an issue for Enterprise operations. I haven't
read up on much of the underlying technology - but even trying
to access the folder from Explorer brings up the password prompt.
Seems to work, but I would have preferred a silent lock and not
the sounds it makes (w/Sound scheme to none). It will be worth
noting how long it takes before the first "Lost Password - Help"
post appears for MPF.
 
Microsoft Private Folder Version 1.0
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/offers/
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I must admit, at first I thought....cool.

Then, does this offer anything that can't be offered just using Permissions
?

The only possible thing I see is that it will lock out an local Admins and
Domain admins from that folder, maybe, I have not tried it.

But then I saw that apparently, from the very brief description, it will
only create a folder called 'My Private Folder'.

Perpetuating the whole nonsense of 'My' folders is ridiculous.

That alone is way more than enough for me to NEVER install this. Then
again, I don't have anything on my PC that need to be private, so......
 
They can look at the post-it note stuck to the side of the monitor for the
password.

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Wes
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Richard said:
The enterprise people are already up in arms over this one. What do you
do in the workplace when someone forgets their password for their
private folder, and that person has to deliver a sensitive presentation
to his boss in three hours (held in the private folder - of course).
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Can't see why they'd be particularly concerned. If they've configured
their domain security group policy settings properly, their rank and
file users won't be able to install it, so the problem you posit can't
occur.


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Richard Urban
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