XP Home permission rights

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correomaster

Hello there!

I am trying to keep a specific folder unacessible for another user in
my PC. I am running XP Home SP2 (NTFS formatted). We are both
administrators. After gathering some information from this and other
groups here I followed instructions as provided here:

http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xpperm/xpPerm2.htm

It worked fine and managed to block access to this folder to this user
taking care that rights for SYSTEM, Administrator (also Owner) and
other "users" displayed were set to full acess. Unfortunately it seems
that the programme that uses this folder (quite dynamically with
continous read/write/delete) needs both of us to have access rights.
The folder resides in C:\WINDOWS. When blocking the other adminstrator
the programme still uses the folder but the resulting documents
contain errors and become unreadable for both of us.

I have tried hiding the folder and restricting access through the
permission options without fully blocking it. This works to certain
extent. It allows the programme to work correctly and the folder
contents are not accessible directly from browsing the folders, but a
simple search through hidden and system files shows the contents of
the folder and makes it accessible to the other user. I have tried
moving the "data" folder to a private location (my documents) with the
same result.

Is there any way to make this folder now viewable by the other user
but still fully functional for the programme using it? I have been
browing this and other google groups but I seem to be unable to find a
response

Thanks in advance.

Correomaster London
 
The only way you could do this is to launch the program with alternate
credentials, ones that do have access to the folder. That might result in no
user-interaction with the program being possible, though.
 
correomaster said:
Hello there!

I am trying to keep a specific folder unacessible for another user in
my PC. I am running XP Home SP2 (NTFS formatted). We are both
administrators.
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Then you cannot do what you want. So long as the other user have
administrative privileges, he/she can access *anythng* on the hard drive.




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Bruce Chambers said:
Then you cannot do what you want. So long as the other user have
administrative privileges, he/she can access *anythng* on the hard drive.
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Actually that's true, I was thinking Pro.

An alternative might be to use Truecrypt to create a driveletter which only
a password-holder can access. There should be no problems with running
software from here, provided it's suitably installed.

http://www.truecrypt.org

Just don't lose the password, this is no toy moneybox!
 
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