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Title: Microsoft private folders
Post by: brummie on July 10, 2006, 19:57:32 PM
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/offers/Details.aspx?displaylang=en&countrycode=USA&offerid=441c2998-248b-49cf-b084-f3a237b58f71

Let you know how good it is  in a bit  :D
Title: Re:Microsoft private folders
Post by: brummie on July 10, 2006, 20:05:46 PM
would have preferd the folder in my docs but it works great


hehehe porn a plenty and noone will know :D
Title: Microsoft private folders
Post by: maximusotter on July 10, 2006, 20:09:03 PM
Just keep it as a dot folder on your Linux partition and no one will know. :P
Title: Microsoft private folders
Post by: brummie on July 10, 2006, 20:14:55 PM
Quote from: maximusotterJust keep it as a dot folder on your Linux partition and no one will know. :P


well flash drives are the best cause i can hide them  ;)

this is quite handy though. never do owt like this myself in winblow or *nix tbh
Title: Re:Microsoft private folders
Post by: brummie on July 18, 2006, 08:14:06 AM
Well windows is pulling this apperently as its upset their business customers  :roll:
Title: Re:Microsoft private folders
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on July 18, 2006, 12:28:57 PM
lol. why not just turn off simple file sharing and set up a nice user group. I have certain folders on my machine that my parents cant access. ;)

Only my account has access rights for it.
Title: Microsoft private folders
Post by: Mardoni on July 18, 2006, 13:06:38 PM
M3ta, how do you *hide* flash drives ?
Title: Re:Microsoft private folders
Post by: brummie on July 18, 2006, 13:12:22 PM
Quote from: M3ta7h3adlol. why not just turn off simple file sharing and set up a nice user group. I have certain folders on my machine that my parents cant access. ;)

Only my account has access rights for it.

encrypted??? if not i can access it easy from *nix  :roll:
Title: Microsoft private folders
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on July 18, 2006, 13:20:09 PM
Quote from: NimrodM3ta, how do you *hide* flash drives ?

em.... no idea :D but you can hide the folders on them providing you format them with NTFS.
Title: Re:Microsoft private folders
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on July 18, 2006, 13:20:47 PM
Quote from: brummie
Quote from: M3ta7h3adlol. why not just turn off simple file sharing and set up a nice user group. I have certain folders on my machine that my parents cant access. ;)

Only my account has access rights for it.

encrypted??? if not i can access it easy from *nix  :roll:

Theres nothing stopping me from using EFS to protect it AS well as access rights on NTFS.
Title: Re:Microsoft private folders
Post by: brummie on July 18, 2006, 13:30:04 PM
Quote from: M3ta7h3ad
Quote from: brummie
Quote from: M3ta7h3adlol. why not just turn off simple file sharing and set up a nice user group. I have certain folders on my machine that my parents cant access. ;)

Only my account has access rights for it.

encrypted??? if not i can access it easy from *nix  :roll:

Theres nothing stopping me from using EFS to protect it AS well as access rights on NTFS.

unless you have Windows HE. And what about the millions of people that do not know how to do it or do not have the rights?
Title: Re:Microsoft private folders
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on July 18, 2006, 23:00:56 PM
Then they best stick to passworded compressed files :D

With XPs inbuilt support its good enough for the majority of folk :)
Title: Microsoft private folders
Post by: Serious on July 19, 2006, 23:52:28 PM
Quote from: NimrodM3ta, how do you *hide* flash drives ?

Quite easy, you put then in a place nobody will look, I used to gave a small hidden drawer that I kept a couple of SD cards in. Even better if you use strong encryption on the files first.

Decided that as they were legal anyway I might as well not bother, I only did it as an experiment to see how easy it was to do.
Title: Re:Microsoft private folders
Post by: brummie on July 20, 2006, 08:22:55 AM
Quote from: M3ta7h3adThen they best stick to passworded compressed files :D

With XPs inbuilt support its good enough for the majority of folk :)

Xp supports passworded compressed folders Out Of The Box??

Title: Re:Microsoft private folders
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on July 20, 2006, 11:44:38 AM
er... yea. :)

When youve made a compressed zip file open it in xp. then head to file, and "password" :)
Title: Re:Microsoft private folders
Post by: brummie on July 20, 2006, 12:17:16 PM
i dont have any zip support in my home edition :(

cause im special??
Title: Re:Microsoft private folders
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on July 20, 2006, 14:05:55 PM
Weird! dont think its a special Pro thing, or an SP2 only thing for that matter.

Every XP Ive used had the support for it :|
Title: Re:Microsoft private folders
Post by: brummie on July 20, 2006, 14:17:42 PM
ill boot up XP later and see why.
Pretty sure you cant password protect mind.
Title: Re:Microsoft private folders
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on July 20, 2006, 15:19:08 PM
The folder itself allows you to view the password protected zips, but you wont be able to view the contents without knowing the password :) so just rename your porn to inoccuous names :D lol.
Title: Re:Microsoft private folders
Post by: brummie on July 20, 2006, 15:38:04 PM
can youpassword protect using XP though? or is a 3rd party app needed?

Title: Microsoft private folders
Post by: snellgrove on July 20, 2006, 18:52:54 PM
Quote from: NimrodM3ta, how do you *hide* flash drives ?

put them under your mattress.
Title: Re:Microsoft private folders
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on July 21, 2006, 01:12:09 AM
Quote from: brummiecan youpassword protect using XP though? or is a 3rd party app needed?


Just using XP.

Will post a screenie but I dont have nice editing stuff on this lappy so itll be ugly. :)
Title: Re:Microsoft private folders
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on July 21, 2006, 01:22:53 AM
(http://www.m3-computers.com/test/xppswd.jpg)