Private Folders

I'm not at all sure how this permissions thing works on Vista Home Premium.
My problem is this ... I have two user accounts on the PC - the main one is
for everyone in the household and the other is for work - both are
passworded administrator accounts and that is how I need them to be.

At present, when logged on as the main user, anyone can gain access to my
work account folders by clicking on the work folder in USERS. Granted, there
are a few security pop-ups which, after clicking, will gain the user access
to the folder and it's files.

Basically, I want to prevent anyone from gaining access to the work folders
when they are logged on to the main account. In XP, it was simple - I had
the work folder set as "make this folder private", but I don't know how to do
this in Vista Home Premium.

I should also mention that my backup program will need to be able to access
my work folder for my daily backup even though it runs automatically from the
main user account.

Any advice will be appreciated. Many thanks.

It was not simple in Windows XP, at least not as you suggest.
Any Administrator can do and undo anything any Administrator can do.
The way to protect your data in Windows XP and Windows Vista is to
have the others use Standard/Limited User accounts.
Otherwise since they are Administrators, they cab gain access.

A 3rd party program may give you the security you want while keeping
all as Administrators.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
http://www.dts-l.org


"Christopher" <Christopher@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm not at all sure how this permissions thing works on Vista Home
> Premium.
> My problem is this ... I have two user accounts on the PC - the main
> one is
> for everyone in the household and the other is for work - both are
> passworded administrator accounts and that is how I need them to be.
>
> At present, when logged on as the main user, anyone can gain access
> to my
> work account folders by clicking on the work folder in USERS.
> Granted, there
> are a few security pop-ups which, after clicking, will gain the user
> access
> to the folder and it's files.
>
> Basically, I want to prevent anyone from gaining access to the work
> folders
> when they are logged on to the main account. In XP, it was simple -
> I had
> the work folder set as "make this folder private", but I don't know
> how to do
> this in Vista Home Premium.
>
> I should also mention that my backup program will need to be able to
> access
> my work folder for my daily backup even though it runs automatically
> from the
> main user account.
>
> Any advice will be appreciated. Many thanks.