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Friday, May 20, 2011

Cre­at­ing A User Locked Folder In Win­dows 7




Whether it is pos­si­ble to cre­ate a folder that will con­tain user’s per­sonal doc­u­ments that can only be opened by the user and all other users of the Win­dows 7 on the same PC can not access it anyway?
Yes it is possible.
I will show you, how to cre­ate a folder with a lock sign on it, that can only be accessed the orig­i­nal user or author, no other user can access it, even it is not in My Doc­u­ments folder.
For exam­ple, I have cre­ated a folder named The Cus­tomize Win­dows in E par­ti­tion of my Win­dows 7 PC:





By right-clicking on the folder, select Prop­er­ties and open the Secu­rity tab :

Now, click the Users other than you; click Edit:

Select the user group/user and fill the check box how much you will give access to the user.
You can allow only to read, not to copy or even not to access/open the folder. After restart or sim­ply restart­ing the explorer.exe, when an unau­tho­rized user wants to open the folder, he/she will get this:


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