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What's equivalent in W7 to XP's "Make this folder private..."?
I'm working in a Windows 7 Pro VM to test this issue.
I've created two user profiles, both "Admin" account type.
When either user is logged in he can go to the C:\Users\ folder and open files in both users' Documents and other folders. So, no user's data folders are private. I'm not trying to hide individual folders, password protect or encrypt a folder, nothing special -- just give two users data privacy from each other like you could in XP by checking the familiar "Make this folder private so that only I have access to it" checkbox.
I know that if I changed the second user to type "Standard" that user would not have access to the first user's data folders, BUT the first user would still have access to the Standard user's folders. So that method won't give both users privacy. (I could make both users Standard but one user is the admin of his PC and all the others, and he doesn't care to endure any Standard user hurdles.)
I've experimented with opening the Properties of a user's folder in C:\Users\ and removing "Administrators" in the Permissions tab of Advanced Security Settings, but in the process a series of "Error Apply Security" - "Access denied" messages appeared for every subfolder (Documents, Pictures, Send To, etc.) within the user's folder. This worked in terms of giving the user data privacy but it seems messy and I wonder what the future implications of those error messages might be.
So what's the correct method for accomplishing this?