Making Folders Private

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If someone wants to password / make private individual folders
"make private" grey) on XP pro. but the help section
states they cant becuase ".... do not convert drive C to
NTFS if you dual-boot Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft
Windows 98, or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) on the same computer, and do not convert other drives to NTFS
I am using windows xp and do now want other users on the computer to view my folders. The little grey box can not be ticked. Is there a way to over come this problem?

Any help would be much appreciatied

Cheers
Marie (e-mail address removed)
 
Marie;
There is no security in FAT32.
You need to be NTFS to Make Folders Private
Windows 95, 98, ME can not exist on or read a NTFS partition.

See this link:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/Private.htm

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Jupiter Jones [MVP]
An easier way to read newsgroup messages:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp
http://dts-l.org/index.html


If someone wants to password / make private individual folders
"make private" grey) on XP pro. but the help section
states they cant becuase ".... do not convert drive C to
NTFS if you dual-boot Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft
Windows 98, or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) on the same
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computer, and do not convert other drives to NTFS
I am using windows xp and do now want other users on the computer to
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view my folders. The little grey box can not be ticked. Is there a way
to over come this problem?
 
hi
i am trying to make a folder on my desktop pwd protected.
i am running XP home and there is no security tab at the top when i go to the properties of the folder. my C drive is NTFS file sytem drive
is the pwd protection option not available on XP home
 
wizbul said:
hi,
i am trying to make a folder on my desktop pwd protected.
i am running XP home and there is no security tab at the top when i go to the properties of the folder. my C drive is NTFS file sytem drive.
is the pwd protection option not available on XP home?
Click to expand...

See other posting. YOu only need to post questions once, normally.
 
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