problems with file security

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Hello all, I'm new to this forum.

I have an anoying problem that I hope someone can help me with.

I currently have windows XP home edition installed on my PC. Me and my wife
both have administrator accounts since we both install software from time to
time. A while ago we both password protected out accounts and I'm sure i
recall ticking a box that said to prevent other users from viewing my
documents. However I soon discovered that this was meant the neither of us
could use software installed by the other one. So we both removed our
passwords. I could not find any box to uncheck though about preventing
othgers from viewing you documents. The problem is that the PC still stops us
from looking at each others files. How can I disdable this feature since it
is causing some very anoying problems.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I don't want to have to go down the
line of deleting accounts or even reformatiing the PC.

Regards

Peter
 
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Peter Fenwick said:
Hello all, I'm new to this forum.

I have an anoying problem that I hope someone can help me
with.

I currently have windows XP home edition installed on my PC.
Me and
my wife both have administrator accounts since we both
install
software from time to time. A while ago we both password
protected
out accounts and I'm sure i recall ticking a box that said to
prevent
other users from viewing my documents. However I soon
discovered that
this was meant the neither of us could use software installed
by the
other one. So we both removed our passwords. I could not find
any box
to uncheck though about preventing othgers from viewing you
documents. The problem is that the PC still stops us from
looking at
each others files. How can I disdable this feature since it
is
causing some very anoying problems.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I don't want to have
to go
down the line of deleting accounts or even reformatiing the
PC.

Regards

Peter
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Have you tried the following,

Right click on the icon for your My Documents folder and select
Properties from the menu.
In the My Documents Properties sheet, click on the Sharing tab.
In the Local Sharing and Security section, remove the check
mark from the box next to "Make this folder private".
Click OK.
Have your wife do the same from her account.
See if you have restored access to each others files.

Good luck

Nepatsfan
 
Thanks for that Nepatsfan.

I tried that but the box is greyed out so I can't uncheck it.

However I have got around the problem by changing the ownership of the
revelant folders so that me and my wife can access each others files.

It seams a bit of a chew on when I would have though I should just be able
to uncheck a box but it's worked.
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Pete.
 
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