restrict the visibility of certain folders

Brink said:

Hello Harish, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Sorry, but Group Policy is not available in Windows Home Basic, nor can it be added.

The only workaround would be to set the group policy settings via regedit instead. To help, the links in the green info box at the top of the tutorial can help show you the registry locations for group policy settings. In addition, there may be a tutorial already written that will have a .reg file already created to make it easy to change as well. If you like, you could look through the tutorial index for any that may be created.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Hi Shawn, thanks for the quick and prompt reply.

I have several user accounts and I want to restrict the visibility of certain folders to certain user accounts. How do I do that ? And I have only Home Basic.

I don't want to other users to see certain folders that exist in my HDD.

Brink said:

Harish,

You could hide the folder, but it will hide it for all users.

If the other users are standard users and not administrators, then you could just keep the folder in one of your user folders for them to never be able to see or access it.

If you like, you could use the tutorial below to set the permission settings of the folders to add the user if not already, and "Deny" the specific users access permission. It will not hide the folder, but will prevent them from being able to open it. Just be very careful to not deny "Everyone" or your user account. Both will lock you out as well. However, if the other users are administrators, then they can just as well grant themselves access again.

Permissions - Allow or Deny Users and Groups

Thanks Brink.
I guess by "user folders", you mean the "documents", "pictures", "music" and those kind of stuff.

By the way is there a performance penalty for keeping huge files/folders in the "My Documents" folder of your user account ?