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Running Windblows XP SP-2 with a drive set up NTFS. I have a file I want
set so that a program cannot alter the file. The instructions I have are as
follows:

Modify the "security" settings to prevent the application from modifying the
changes you have made to the file. Set ONLY "read" and "read/execute"
priviliges and DO NOT allow inheritance from the parent.

Okay ... this means ... what? And how do you do this? Thanks!

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What exactly are you trying to do? and with what program.

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"Sens Fan Happy In Ohio" <> wrote in message
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> Running Windblows XP SP-2 with a drive set up NTFS. I have a file I want
> set so that a program cannot alter the file. The instructions I have are
> as follows:
>
> Modify the "security" settings to prevent the application from modifying
> the changes you have made to the file. Set ONLY "read" and "read/execute"
> priviliges and DO NOT allow inheritance from the parent.
>
> Okay ... this means ... what? And how do you do this? Thanks!
>
> --
> Kyle
>
> Reply address is fake. Please send all praise, abuse, insults, bequests of
> $1million US dollars to sensfan_luvslisa (at) yahoo (dot) ca. Change the
> obvious to the obvious. Oh, and if you must abuse or insult, don't expect
> a reply. Money gets faster attention
>

"Sens Fan Happy In Ohio" <> wrote in message
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> Running Windblows XP SP-2 with a drive set up NTFS. I have a file I want
> set so that a program cannot alter the file. The instructions I have are
> as follows:
>
> Modify the "security" settings to prevent the application from modifying
> the changes you have made to the file. Set ONLY "read" and "read/execute"
> priviliges and DO NOT allow inheritance from the parent.
>
> Okay ... this means ... what? And how do you do this? Thanks!
>
> --
> Kyle
>
> Reply address is fake. Please send all praise, abuse, insults, bequests of
> $1million US dollars to sensfan_luvslisa (at) yahoo (dot) ca. Change the
> obvious to the obvious. Oh, and if you must abuse or insult, don't expect
> a reply. Money gets faster attention
>

You use Explorer and go to the file and right-click it Properties and select
the Security Tab and figure it out. Of course, the account you are using
must have the privileges set on the file to make the necessary security
changes or use an user account the has Administrator rights. The O/S also
has a Help facility if you need more information.

Duane

In news:SiVde.50908$c24.4618@attbi_s72, Duane Arnold <> first
attempted to communicate with pen, but the writing was small, so next used
sidewalk chalk, but the rain washed it away, and then switched to spray
paint and stencils but the cans exploded, so placed fingers to keyboard for
this:
>
> You use Explorer and go to the file and right-click it Properties and
> select the Security Tab and figure it out. Of course, the account you
> are using must have the privileges set on the file to make the
> necessary security changes or use an user account the has
> Administrator rights. The O/S also has a Help facility if you need
> more information.
> Duane

Thanks for answering Duane! I did as you said, but there's no "Security"
tab with I right-click the file. I'm the only user of the PC so I should
have Administrator rights, correct? So how do I get this "security" tab to
appear? If it matters any, the file is inside of the C:\Program Files area.

I ask again, what are you trying to do and with what program. Do you have XP
Home or Pro? Windows XP Home does not have file access control, so all users
of the machine have access to all files in the same way as on Windows 98 so
you will not see a security tab. Under Windows XP Professional access can be
restricted so that users can only see their own files. Windows XP
Professional can be configured to have encrypted file systems that are
pretty secure.

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"Sens Fan Happy In Ohio" <> wrote in message
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> In news:SiVde.50908$c24.4618@attbi_s72, Duane Arnold <>
> first attempted to communicate with pen, but the writing was small, so
> next used sidewalk chalk, but the rain washed it away, and then switched
> to spray paint and stencils but the cans exploded, so placed fingers to
> keyboard for this:
>>
>> You use Explorer and go to the file and right-click it Properties and
>> select the Security Tab and figure it out. Of course, the account you
>> are using must have the privileges set on the file to make the
>> necessary security changes or use an user account the has
>> Administrator rights. The O/S also has a Help facility if you need
>> more information.
>> Duane
>
> Thanks for answering Duane! I did as you said, but there's no "Security"
> tab with I right-click the file. I'm the only user of the PC so I should
> have Administrator rights, correct? So how do I get this "security" tab
> to appear? If it matters any, the file is inside of the C:\Program Files
> area.
>

Forgot to add Windows XP Home allows you to assign NTFS permissions to files
and folders, but the range of permissions is limited. Instead of granular
NTFS based access controls, Windows XP Home implements something called
"Simple File Sharing". The Simple File Sharing scheme allows you to assign
files and folders a predefined level of access.

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"pcbutts1" <> wrote in message
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>I ask again, what are you trying to do and with what program. Do you have
>XP Home or Pro? Windows XP Home does not have file access control, so all
>users of the machine have access to all files in the same way as on Windows
>98 so you will not see a security tab. Under Windows XP Professional access
>can be restricted so that users can only see their own files. Windows XP
>Professional can be configured to have encrypted file systems that are
>pretty secure.
>
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>
>
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>
>
> "Sens Fan Happy In Ohio" <> wrote in message
> news:NbadncHHstWrs-XfRVn-...
>> In news:SiVde.50908$c24.4618@attbi_s72, Duane Arnold <>
>> first attempted to communicate with pen, but the writing was small, so
>> next used sidewalk chalk, but the rain washed it away, and then switched
>> to spray paint and stencils but the cans exploded, so placed fingers to
>> keyboard for this:
>>>
>>> You use Explorer and go to the file and right-click it Properties and
>>> select the Security Tab and figure it out. Of course, the account you
>>> are using must have the privileges set on the file to make the
>>> necessary security changes or use an user account the has
>>> Administrator rights. The O/S also has a Help facility if you need
>>> more information.
>>> Duane
>>
>> Thanks for answering Duane! I did as you said, but there's no "Security"
>> tab with I right-click the file. I'm the only user of the PC so I should
>> have Administrator rights, correct? So how do I get this "security" tab
>> to appear? If it matters any, the file is inside of the C:\Program Files
>> area.
>>
>
>

"Sens Fan Happy In Ohio" <> wrote in message
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> In news:SiVde.50908$c24.4618@attbi_s72, Duane Arnold <>
> first attempted to communicate with pen, but the writing was small, so
> next used sidewalk chalk, but the rain washed it away, and then switched
> to spray paint and stencils but the cans exploded, so placed fingers to
> keyboard for this:
>>
>> You use Explorer and go to the file and right-click it Properties and
>> select the Security Tab and figure it out. Of course, the account you
>> are using must have the privileges set on the file to make the
>> necessary security changes or use an user account the has
>> Administrator rights. The O/S also has a Help facility if you need
>> more information.
>> Duane
>
> Thanks for answering Duane! I did as you said, but there's no "Security"
> tab with I right-click the file. I'm the only user of the PC so I should
> have Administrator rights, correct? So how do I get this "security" tab
> to appear? If it matters any, the file is inside of the C:\Program Files
> area.

Well that would mean that the file system that is being used is a FAT32 file
system and that type of file system being used by the XP Home NT based O/S
has no file security that can be set for a file. You will need to use the
NTFS file system on the XP Home NT based O/S so that you can set file
permissions as needed.

http://labmice.techtarget.com/articl...ychecklist.htm

You use the Convert utility on the XP O/S to convert the file system from
FAT32 over to NTFS and then the Security tab will show.

You can look-up the Convert command with XP Help facility.

The Convert command is a piece of cake to use.

And you don't have the Security Tab, because NTFS is not being used as the
file system.

http://labmice.techtarget.com/window...ilesystems.htm

Duane

In news:fGYde.51712$c24.34372@attbi_s72, Duane Arnold <>
first attempted to communicate with pen, but the writing was small, so next
used sidewalk chalk, but the rain washed it away, and then switched to spray
paint and stencils but the cans exploded, so placed fingers to keyboard for
this:
>
> Well that would mean that the file system that is being used is a
> FAT32 file system and that type of file system being used by the XP
> Home NT based O/S has no file security that can be set for a file.
> You will need to use the NTFS file system on the XP Home NT based O/S
> so that you can set file permissions as needed.
>
> http://labmice.techtarget.com/articl...ychecklist.htm
>
> You use the Convert utility on the XP O/S to convert the file system
> from FAT32 over to NTFS and then the Security tab will show.
>
> You can look-up the Convert command with XP Help facility.
>
> The Convert command is a piece of cake to use.
>
> And you don't have the Security Tab, because NTFS is not being used
> as the file system.
>
> http://labmice.techtarget.com/window...ilesystems.htm
>
> Duane

Very odd again ... because it does say that my C-dive is set as a file
system of NTFS. I've set up a shared PC to view certain files in my Shared
Documents folder and also to access my printer ... so I know that something
must be working as far as security goes. I'm perplexed!

"Sens Fan Happy In Ohio" <> wrote in message
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> In news:fGYde.51712$c24.34372@attbi_s72, Duane Arnold <>
> first attempted to communicate with pen, but the writing was small, so
> next used sidewalk chalk, but the rain washed it away, and then switched
> to spray paint and stencils but the cans exploded, so placed fingers to
> keyboard for this:
>>
>> Well that would mean that the file system that is being used is a
>> FAT32 file system and that type of file system being used by the XP
>> Home NT based O/S has no file security that can be set for a file.
>> You will need to use the NTFS file system on the XP Home NT based O/S
>> so that you can set file permissions as needed.
>>
>> http://labmice.techtarget.com/articl...ychecklist.htm
>>
>> You use the Convert utility on the XP O/S to convert the file system
>> from FAT32 over to NTFS and then the Security tab will show.
>>
>> You can look-up the Convert command with XP Help facility.
>>
>> The Convert command is a piece of cake to use.
>>
>> And you don't have the Security Tab, because NTFS is not being used
>> as the file system.
>>
>> http://labmice.techtarget.com/window...ilesystems.htm
>>
>> Duane
>
> Very odd again ... because it does say that my C-dive is set as a file
> system of NTFS. I've set up a shared PC to view certain files in my
> Shared Documents folder and also to access my printer ... so I know that
> something must be working as far as security goes. I'm perplexed!
>

I would think that XP Home would be close to XP Pro as far as NTFS being
used. I have never used XP Home only Pro. So maybe, you cannot do what you
can on Pro with Home. But that doesn't make much sense if MS has done that.
Why have NTFS if you cannot use its security features? Maybe you need to
set XP for *Classic* View so that the screens look like the Win 2k O/S
screens without all the fancy XP screen format may be the Tab will appear.
You can search Google on how to set XP screens for *Classic* view and you
might wan to search on *How to set NTFS file permissions on XP Home* if that
exist. You can use Dogpile.com for the search engine too.

Duane

I ask again, what are you trying to do and with what program. Do you have XP
Home or Pro? Last time.

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"Sens Fan Happy In Ohio" <> wrote in message
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> In news:fGYde.51712$c24.34372@attbi_s72, Duane Arnold <>
> first attempted to communicate with pen, but the writing was small, so
> next used sidewalk chalk, but the rain washed it away, and then switched
> to spray paint and stencils but the cans exploded, so placed fingers to
> keyboard for this:
>>
>> Well that would mean that the file system that is being used is a
>> FAT32 file system and that type of file system being used by the XP
>> Home NT based O/S has no file security that can be set for a file.
>> You will need to use the NTFS file system on the XP Home NT based O/S
>> so that you can set file permissions as needed.
>>
>> http://labmice.techtarget.com/articl...ychecklist.htm
>>
>> You use the Convert utility on the XP O/S to convert the file system
>> from FAT32 over to NTFS and then the Security tab will show.
>>
>> You can look-up the Convert command with XP Help facility.
>>
>> The Convert command is a piece of cake to use.
>>
>> And you don't have the Security Tab, because NTFS is not being used
>> as the file system.
>>
>> http://labmice.techtarget.com/window...ilesystems.htm
>>
>> Duane
>
> Very odd again ... because it does say that my C-dive is set as a file
> system of NTFS. I've set up a shared PC to view certain files in my
> Shared Documents folder and also to access my printer ... so I know that
> something must be working as far as security goes. I'm perplexed!
>