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Without NTFS, you are gonna be very limited in what you can do as far as security settings. It's a good thing that he is logging under as "Guest" where he won't be able to install or uninstall anything.

Best bet is move the sensitive data to a removable disk/storage or if they are MS Word documents, you can set a password on them.

There are ways to remove My Computer and My Documents from the desktop, but of course he/she can always access any directory through win explorer of course.

You can create a zip file containing your private documents and set a password to that using the file menu. When the Guest tries to access any of the contents, he(she) will be required to give the correct password.

Under the Admin Tools you should be able to set a local security policy. I'm fairly sure that is a possibility with FAT, but not certain.

Is there any particular reason you're using fat32 instead of ntfs?
CHanging the file system would help you out with the security issues.

Another option is to make a smaller partition on your harddrive and format it as NTFS. Then put all your sensitive data there.

That way you can secure that partition from other users.

This is how I have my system set up.

If they try to access any folder on the NTFS partition they just get 'Access denied'.

Originally posted by Rizzo:
Under the Admin Tools you should be able to set a local security policy. I'm fairly sure that is a possibility with FAT, but not certain.

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Local Security settings will not allow Sallam to restrict access to any particular file/folder. Like i said above you need NTFS.