Multi account W7

oli356

oli356

oli356

Soldato
Joined
10 Jan 2010
Posts
5,319
Location
Reading
Been needing to do this for a while. I have my user on my desktop 'oli' and then the guest account turned on.

I have 3 partitions on my drive: C, E, D. This is where a big big problem for me comes in. The guest account can access the E and D drive (D drive being where i have set 'Oli's my documents, music and pictures to' along with the other folders. So its Computer>D>All my folders.
The guest can access all of these.

Hoping this is making some sence :D

So is there a way that the guest can't view the folders in the 2 extra partitions as they are my documents?

Using windows 7 home prem.

thanks
 
Last edited:
Chrome installs itself on a per-user basis. I'm not sure if there is an option to install for all users but that is the reason. You might have noticed it didn't require admin rights to install.
 
Ok thanks for that one, will install that then on the other account. I'm presuming that's why it installs to the weird location (appdata/local) or whatever it is.
 
Last edited:
Understand what you mean :p. You need to change the permisions of the drive/folder depending on how you want it to be.

NOTE: Create an empty folder and test it from the guest account before doing it to all your files to make sure it works


The first thing to do is disable inherited permisions.

Do this by rightclicking the folder/hard drive > properties > secutity tab > advanced > change permissions.

untick the 'include inheritable permissions...', when prompted, click add
Then under 'permision entries', remove 'Authenticated Users' and but leave the 'administrators' and 'system' ones.

Then click 'add' type in your username and click 'check names', click 'ok'
In the dialog that appears, tick 'allow' next to 'full control' which should select everything
click ok

then apply

edit: I can include pictures if you want but probably tomorrow
 
Last edited:
Ok thanks.

You say to leave administrators and system ones. Does that mean i should leave my account presumably then "Users (Oli-PC/Users)" and so i'm only deleting the authenticated users?
Or do i just delete that one as well and then add it like you said later?

edit: deleted the users one as it means everyone i guess and tried on guest account and i clicked D drive and then the test folder and got access denied so should be fine now if i do it to the partition itself :)

And when i click allow full control. I tick the
apply these permissions to objects and/or containers within this container only
Click to expand...
box?
 
Ok thanks umm when i do it to the d drive it doesn't have "untick the 'include inheritable permissions...'"

 
Because there is nothing to inherit... you are at the highest level when dealing with the partition/drive NTFS permissions.
 
As SiriusB said, theres nothing to inherit. All you do now is remove 'authenticated users' and 'users (oli-pc\users)' and add your own username
 
Ok thanks guys :)

Then just got to get programs installed on Oli user to guest acc as some are missing.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom