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Three partitions C:, D: and E: Initial user account set up as administrator with password. added files to Win XP Added limited user account with password. The limited user can see files of administrator even though the instructions said the limited user would not see the administrator files. How do I keep files away from other users? Is there anything to do other than encryption? Does it matter where files are placed? If I use encryption for the administrator files, does that use the administrator login password? If I make this a dual boot with Win 7 how does all of this then work? |
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On 18/07/2017 22:23, NewUser wrote:
Initial user account set up as administrator with password. added files to Win XP Added limited user account with password. The limited user can see files of administrator even though the instructions said the limited user would not see the administrator files. Login again as Administrator and check whether the local Limited Account is not set as Administrator by mistake. I think this is what used to happen in XP. You need to change the Account type. -- With over 500 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 14:23:48 -0700, NewUser wrote:
Windows XP Pro Three partitions C:, D: and E: Initial user account set up as administrator with password. added files to Win XP Added limited user account with password. The limited user can see files of administrator even though the instructions said the limited user would not see the administrator files. What it meant is the Administrator user profile's files. Not files which require administrator rights. How do I keep files away from other users? You can do that by modifying the NTFS permissions. To prevent user(s)/group(s) from seeing the contents of a folder, change the NTFS permission for that folder. Individual files can not be made invisible for a specific user(s)/group(s), but you can still prevent the files' contents from being read/executed. Is there anything to do other than encryption? No. Encryption is mainly to hide the unscrambled data from other users/groups. It doesn't prevent other users/groups from reading the data itself. Does it matter where files are placed? No. However, if the containing folder has its Encryption attribute set by default, any newly created files will be encrypted automatically. Also, boot files such as NTLDR and BOOT.INI in the root folder of the system drive must not be encrypted or compressed, otherwise the OS won't be bootable. If I use encryption for the administrator files, does that use the administrator login password? No. It uses the user's login token instead of password (which is stored in memory). i.e. the OS won't prompt the user for a password in order to read an NTFS encrypted files. A user will need to login first, in order to read his/her encrypted files. If I make this a dual boot with Win 7 how does all of this then work? A local user account named e.g. "john" in two separate installations of Windows (no matter what versions) would be treated as two different users because they are local user accounts. Meaning that each Windows installation has their own database of local user accounts. So, john's encrypted files in one Windows installation aren't readable using john account from the other Windows installation. You'll need to manually recreate a user account with the same SID in the other Windows installation (i.e. same SID and account name), in order to "import" a user account (excluding the user's files in the profile folder). I'm pretty sure there's a tool for this specific purpose in the net, but I haven't tried to search for it. Windows also have a user migration tool, but AFAIK (I could be wrong) it doesn't duplicate the user acount's SID. |
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