XP Home Access

[wayland1985]

I have several children and one computer. I store most of my business/tax files in a slave drive I installed. I want this Drive (or at the very least, its folders) to be un-accessable to my children in their accounts. Can I do this with XP Home edition (and how?) Or do I need to get XP Professional?

[MCT]

u can do it with xp, easiest way IMO, is 2 either block the drive from "my computer" so it cannot be accessed (u'd have to goto command prompt, or run & type the drive letter), or u can set there accounts 2 no be able 2 access it (which IMO takes more time then the first tweak )

goto http://winguides.com 2 search for that registry edit

[un4given1]

set them as USER and they won't be able to access your profile or any other USER profiles.

[MCT]

its a harddrive tho & they will be able 2 access that

[un4given1]

@MCT Are you willing to wager on that? I guarantee you are incorrect.

[MCT]

set them as USER and they won't be able to access your profile or any other USER profiles.

he said "slave drive" which is a harddrive WITH folders/files on it, so u have 2 specifically DENY access to that drive, or the user can still browse/read/write to it

[un4given1]

As long as it's NTFS it will work with the permissions. If he is saving items outside of his profile then YES, he might need to set specific securities for each folder he wishes to set deny.

[MCT]

isnt that what i said

[prathapml]

heh, controlling access to drives can be far easier. With XP home itself.

Just remove access to the partition thru drive-letter, and mount it in some empty NTFS folder of your profile. So now you should only be able to access it from your own profile (other profiles can't access it).

How to do it? click through to this post

@wayland1985

Do post back, on what you finally did.

[Ge0ph]

Just get a thumb drive and keep your stuff on that, then just take it with you.