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How to setup users/groups/permissions for a user "home" folder
I own a system running windows 7 enterprise and have an administrator account on it.
I would like to setup a "standard user" (not admin) account for a new user.
I plan to create a folder for the user inside of which the user will be allowed to create his own subfolders and files. I plan to right click on that folder and "send it to
the desktop".
When the user double clicks that desktop icon, he'll be running windows explorer and I don't want him to be able to see or do anything using windows explorer outside of his
"home" folder other than creating or accessing items under it.
I plan to have that user's home folder be directly under the c: drive.
Questions:
Is there a better place for it (inside of "my documents", etc) or is under the c: drive as good a place as any for these purposes?
If I put the user's "home" folder under the c: drive, what should the permissions be for which users and which groups on the c: drive toplevel itself and on the user's
"home" folder so the user can do what he wants in or under his home folder, can run a few applications located in "Program Files" such as Firefox (one of the desktop icons I will be installing) and in another folder under the c: drive where I will place a few .exe files he can also run, but NOT be able to read, write, execute or in any way modify the contents of any other folders anywhere under the c: drive?
According to Microsoft "help", "standard users" can't see files created by administrators. But when I tried this with a "test" standard user account, I created some files logged into my admin account, then changed users to the standard user account and there I could not only see the files I had just created as admin, but I could even delete them. Is the Microsoft statement that standard users can't see admin files wrong or do you think somewhere I've improperly setup some permissions that are allowing this to happen?
Thanks very much for any help.