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/ November 27, 2008 / 1:21 min.
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Make your personal folders private
Make the folders in your profile private, including My Documents, Favorites, Cookies, the Desktop and the Start menu, so that users who share your computer cannot access them or the files within.
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- Double-click the drive where Windows is installed.
- If the contents of the drive are hidden, click where it says Show the contents of this drive.
- Then click on the Documents and Settings folder and choose your user folder.
- Right click any folder in your user profile and then click Properties.
- Click the Sharing tab, and tick the box next to "Make this folder private" then click Apply, or OK to close out of the window.
When you make a folder private, all of it's subfolders will be private as well. When you share a folder, you also share all of its subfolders unless you specifically make them private.
- If the contents of the drive are hidden, click where it says Show the contents of this drive.
- Then click on the Documents and Settings folder and choose your user folder.
- Right click any folder in your user profile and then click Properties.
- Click the Sharing tab, and tick the box next to "Make this folder private" then click Apply, or OK to close out of the window.
When you make a folder private, all of it's subfolders will be private as well. When you share a folder, you also share all of its subfolders unless you specifically make them private.
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