Shoutbox

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Originally posted by andrewdodd13
P.S. Try:
Start -> Run. Type "cmd". Now type (replacing <user> with your username):
cacls c:\documents and settings\<user>\My Documents /G <user>:F

This should prevent even Administrator from opening the folder .

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no it says "the paremeter is incorrect"

That's a bit strange. Are you sure you're entering the command correctly? For example, I've just tried this out:

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cacls "Songs 4 Mel.zip" /G Andrew:F

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Which prints out that only I can access Mel's songs .

If I wanted to protect My Documents  (maybe its the missing ""'s, not sure):

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cacls "c:\documents and settings\andrew\my documents" /G Andrew:F

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Originally posted by andrewdodd13
That's a bit strange. Are you sure you're entering the command correctly? For example, I've just tried this out:

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cacls "Songs 4 Mel.zip" /G Andrew:F

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Which prints out that only I can access Mel's songs .

If I wanted to protect My Documents  (maybe its the missing ""'s, not sure):

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cacls "c:\documents and settings\andrew\my documents" /G Andrew:F

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ok so i copied your text and out it in "run" chanigng 'andrew' to 'calum' and the "run" box dissappeared - good or bad?

but i dont think this is what i want as i need it to stop opening my documents with out typing in a password

Well it's possible that it ran, but it usually says "Please Confirm", but you could paste it into the cmd line and see what the output is from there.

But, to simply password protect a single folder on windows is a pain, I don't think an advanced method is avalible, however I did see a cool little javascript custom folder, but it was easily by-passable, a quick google didn't turn up anything I'm afraid though.

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Originally posted by andrewdodd13
Well it's possible that it ran, but it usually says "Please Confirm", but you could paste it into the cmd line and see what the output is from there.

But, to simply password protect a single folder on windows is a pain, I don't think an advanced method is avalible, however I did see a cool little javascript custom folder, but it was easily by-passable, a quick google didn't turn up anything I'm afraid though.

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ok thanks