Hiding items in XP?

[ryudo]

My computer is going to be in the living room where it will be left on most of the time. However, there will be many people visiting and using it. I want to hide certain items from them-

- certain windows XP directories (folders)
- certain bookmarks in Firefox

How can I do this?

 

[mechBgon]

Password-protect your account. Make a new Limited-class account called "Visitors" that has no password protection. Important: make sure it's a Limited-class account, not a Computer Administrator-class account. Or you can enable Guest. That'll keep them out of your account's folder in C:\Documents and Settings, which is where your personally-related settings, bookmarks and etc would be located. It will also prevent them from installing junk without your permission, as long as all Admin-class accounts are password-protected and the passwords are secret from them.

If you want to hide stuff that is not located in your account's folder in C:\Documents and Settings, then you really will have to work at it. You could deny access to a folder, but hiding it completely is another story.

*refrains from asking the obvi0us question here* 😛

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
*refrains from asking the obvi0us question here* 😛

being the frequent visitor to ATOT... let me do the honors.

pr0n?!

 

[STang57]

not sure about the FIREFOX issue, but i am looking for something similar also. if you use INTERNET EXPLORER you can download FAVELOCK which is a program that pw protects designated folders. for the folder issue, if you want to keep it so everyone uses the same acct, you can right click on the folder and select "hidden." if its still on your screen just refresh. to bring it back up you have to open another folder and select TOOLS -> FOLDER OPTIONS -> VIEW tab -> SHOW HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS. hope that helps you hide the pr0n

 

[cryptonomicon]

my personal style to hiding ... files... is to zip the entire thing, then rename the zip file like:
name.xcltr

that way it appears as a garbage file (no program association!) and no one will look at it, then rename it name.zip later

files opened from zips dont appear in recent docs either, however they load themselves into the temporary directory

all i know^