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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / Administration / February 2007Other users accesing my files and folders.
can someone tell me how to block other users of my pc from accessing files inside my account? I have tested to see if someone can see my files and the computer says that Windows needs permission to access my files, I figured after this my password would need to be entered but all you have to do is click okay and anyone has access to all my files. can some please tell me how to change this? Vista Home premium is my OS If you password-protect the administrative account that shows in the UAC prompt, just clicking OK won't be enough. Only people who know that password will be able to get past that UAC prompt to where they can get to your files. > can someone tell me how to block other users of my pc from accessing files > inside my account? I have tested to see if someone can see my files and [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Vista Home premium is my OS That's what I thought would happen until I saw someone playing music from some of my files. I went back and tried to get into another admin. account on my pc and the prompt for permission comes up it says I don't have permission to access that users files. It then says the computer needs permission I press okay and then I'm in. After that there are no more prompts i can access those files whenever I want. I've blocked file-sharing and enabled password protection yet people I don't want snooping in my files are free to roam. > If you password-protect the administrative account that shows in the UAC > prompt, just clicking OK won't be enough. Only people who know that password [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > > > Vista Home premium is my OS Anybody? > That's what I thought would happen until I saw someone playing music from > some of my files. I went back and tried to get into another admin. account on [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > > > > > Vista Home premium is my OS Anybody? > That's what I thought would happen until I saw someone playing music from > some of my files. I went back and tried to get into another admin. account on [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > > > > > Vista Home premium is my OS Are all of the other users also Administrators? If so, then they have complete access by using their own Administrator token. You might want to consider encrypting your personal files. Right-click on the folders that you want to encrypt, select Properties, Advanced. There is a checkbox to encrypt. Before encrypting anything, search the Help and Support for encryption. There are some useful articles there with explanations and procedures.  SignatureJane, not plain ;) 64 bit enabled :-) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-) > Anybody? > [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] >> > > >> > > Vista Home premium is my OS |
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