ampersand Posted March 2, 2004 Share Posted March 2, 2004 When I right click a folder and choose properties>sharing there is an option to "make the folder private" but the check box is faded away and unclickable. How can I use this option ? Thanks in advance ampersand Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/145070-folder-protection/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
yudi_lks Posted March 2, 2004 Share Posted March 2, 2004 Screenie please.. I can't find it in my folder's properties Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/145070-folder-protection/#findComment-1786738 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bipp5 Posted March 2, 2004 Share Posted March 2, 2004 i think the folder has to be in one of your personal profile folders, like "My documents" (and any subfolders), or on your desktop. anything in c:\Documents and Settings\<profile name> (including subfolders) can be made "private", but anything outside of it can't (at least from my experience) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/145070-folder-protection/#findComment-1786762 Share on other sites More sharing options...
#Michael Posted March 3, 2004 Share Posted March 3, 2004 i think the folder has to be in one of your personal profile folders, like "My documents" (and any subfolders), or on your desktop. anything in c:\Documents and Settings\<profile name> (including subfolders) can be made "private", but anything outside of it can't (at least from my experience) Not true...I keep the 'My Documents' folder in my d: drive and I am able to make it private. Do you have admin rights on your machine? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/145070-folder-protection/#findComment-1789202 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ampersand Posted March 3, 2004 Author Share Posted March 3, 2004 yes, I'm using the admin account. This option is on all of my folders Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/145070-folder-protection/#findComment-1790729 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borbus Posted March 3, 2004 Share Posted March 3, 2004 Isn't it obvious why you can't make your windows folder private? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/145070-folder-protection/#findComment-1790741 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ampersand Posted March 3, 2004 Author Share Posted March 3, 2004 its an example only :p It appears like this on all my folders Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/145070-folder-protection/#findComment-1791290 Share on other sites More sharing options...
#Michael Posted March 3, 2004 Share Posted March 3, 2004 The reason that you can't use that feature is because you have file sharing turned off. Look farther down on your pic and you will see that you can't share that folder over a network. In order to make a folder private that could be shared, you need to have file sharing turned on. http://img16.photobucket.com/albums/v48/at...-1078319301.jpg Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/145070-folder-protection/#findComment-1791813 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew_Sedlak Posted September 12, 2004 Share Posted September 12, 2004 You can make any folder private with this software: Folder Protection Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/145070-folder-protection/#findComment-584545165 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blik Posted September 12, 2004 Share Posted September 12, 2004 My computer -> Tools -> Folder Options -> Turn off "Use simple file sharing" Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/145070-folder-protection/#findComment-584545169 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfaizanh Posted September 12, 2004 Share Posted September 12, 2004 ampersand this is for only works when ur drive is formatted in NTFS Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/145070-folder-protection/#findComment-584545181 Share on other sites More sharing options...
raid517 Posted September 12, 2004 Share Posted September 12, 2004 What i would like is a way of loking people out of system folders to prevent them from doing any damage. But even doing this through policy in XP can cause problems, as it has the tendency to lock access to system folders by other parts of the system itself. I've never really found a usable way round this. GJ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/145070-folder-protection/#findComment-584545221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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