Password protec w/in a user account

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In XP Home v5.1...

User accounts can be employed to restrict access to files/folders/programs.
Once a user is logged in, can selected folders be password protected from
access? If so, how? Intended need: if User A logs in, then accidentally
leaves the PC w/o logging out, critical folders should be restricted from
access by other users.

Thanks in advance!

 

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Anonymous J. wrote:
> In XP Home v5.1...
>
> User accounts can be employed to restrict access to
> files/folders/programs. Once a user is logged in, can selected
> folders be password protected from access? If so, how? Intended
> need: if User A logs in, then accidentally leaves the PC w/o logging
> out, critical folders should be restricted from access by other users.

Not natively.
But you should turn on "Password Protected Screensavers" with a short enough
timeout to alleve this fear.

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