disable drive access in xp

[mc^^^^]

hey, as some of you know i had a major brotherly security breach on my machine a short while ago and as a result i am making only two accounts on this machine. my account (administrator), and a second account described as 'account on a barbed wire leash'.

so, biggest question, how do i disable all access to a certain drive in xp for limited access accounts?

any other things i should do to restrict access to this account?

[iomegajaz]

If you're going to be playing with access to drives, I would seriously consider creating a secondary administrator account, in case you accidentally lock yourself out of your main admin account. I've done it with w2k, and had to reinstall.

Also, yeah, as Sawg's asked - Pro or Home? It's quite simple to do with Pro.

[mc^^^^]

pro of course ;)

[Fickle]

Originally posted by Hugh
If you're going to be playing with access to drives, I would seriously consider creating a secondary administrator account, in case you accidentally lock yourself out of your main admin account. I've done it with w2k, and had to reinstall.

Also, yeah, as Sawg's asked - Pro or Home? It's quite simple to do with Pro.

I did this on a couple PC's with older versions of windows by making certain things password accesible and losing/forgetting the password. You'll feel like a real dumbass if you do it too.

[ctkatz8086]

i have home version (hey, it came pre-installed, don't shoot me!). anyone know how to do the same with this version?

[DuaneJeffers]

Awe crap, I didn't want to boot into safe mode ... DANG YOU SAWG!!!

(j/k :) )
-Duane

[mc^^^^]

hey worked like a charm ;), didnt realise there was such a thing as 'simple file sharing'. thanx sawg

[iomegajaz]

It never turned itself on for me... =/

>>i have home version (hey, it came pre-installed, don't shoot me!). anyone know how to do the same with this version?

There was a thread about exactly this subjext, no longer than a week ago, right here in GD. I'l find it and edit this post, unless someone else finds it first.

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=164922

[ryan]

Originally posted by Hugh
It never turned itself on for me... =/

>>i have home version (hey, it came pre-installed, don't shoot me!). anyone know how to do the same with this version?

There was a thread about exactly this subjext, no longer than a week ago, right here in GD. I'l find it and edit this post, unless someone else finds it first.

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=164922

Weird thing is, I 'got' Windows XP Pro :) (A few days after that thread, yup yup)

edit: Too bad you can't use tihs with a Fat partition.

[Vie]

Open computer
Locate Drive
Pull out cables