I have just gone the dual boot route and have installed Win2k to go along
with my Win98SE.
As such, I am using FAT32, *NOT* NTFS to maintain exchangeability etc.
My question is: if the file security features under NTFS are not available
to me, is there some other way in Win2K to completely hide certain files or
folders from every other user.
I use Magic Folders under my Win98SE partition and this is an excellent
program - specified folders and subfolders are completely hidden from
everyone's view until a password is applied. Files and folders this
protected arte TOTALLY hidden form view - they don't show up anywhere - not
in explorer, not on the desktop, not in search or find files etc. This is
what I also want in Win2k. Unfortunately Magic Folders does not have a Win2k
version just yet.
Can I accomplish this in Win2k directly?
If not, can anyone recommend a 3rd party software that I can use to
accomplish this task. There are too many people using this computer and I
have a number of sensitive folders that need to be hidden totally from
prying eyes.
Thanks in advance.
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