Restrict Program Access

[Farrar]

I have a tax software program that is installed on my computer running XP Home Edition. I do not want other users to access this folder through the list of programs in when they are logged on. Short of uninstalling this program and reinstalling it in my “My Documents”, what can I do to prevent access?

The drive IS formatted in NTFS.

Thanks,

Jeff

[DANIMAL]

you can setup up a guest account in profiles and set permissions there.

[NooNoo]

Turn off simple file sharing and set permissions according to the user.

[MacGyver]

You've got an NTFS volume, why don't you restrict access to all users except yourself?

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/filesharing.htm

[Mike Turley]

With XP Home you cannot change file permissions in the normal way. Boot into Safe Mode, right-click on the program's folder and you should then get the permissions tab. Remove the Everyone group from the list and add your own account.

[ShadowKing]

I don't have access to an XP Home box, but I would be interested to see if some of the command line permissions tools would work for Home.

If NTFS is installed, then all of the files DO have an ACL, so it wouldn't be that hard to change it...

You can get XCACLS here (http://www.mattlowe.com/scripting/?f=Public\XCACLS.vbs).

Click "Download this File" at the bottom of the script...

Just run it with a /?

Let me know if it works...