Gaining access to Privately marked folders in Windows XP
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(116 votes)
Published: May 23, 2007 7:04 a.m.
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Don’t you hate it when people make their Windows XP Accounts “Private?” You can’t look through their files to see what they’ve been doing and all that fancy crap. Or, maybe you need to gain access to your own account files because you made a new partition or perhaps you were just dumb enough to forget your password. No matter what the case is, you’ll end up getting this when you try to access that folder:
If you have Windows XP Professional, you will be able to do this very easily, read below.
The first thing that needs to be done is turning off Simple File Sharing (This cannot be done in XP Home):
Open "My Computer"
Click the "Tools" Menu
Click "Folder Options..."
Click the "View" tab
Under "Advanced Settings", uncheck the box that says "Use simple file sharing (Recommended)"
Click "OK"
Now you are ready to take ownership of the privately marked folder...
Right click the folder that you want to take ownership of, and then click "Properties" (in this case, it’s "take-ownership")
Click the "Security" tab
Click "Advanced" and then click the "Owner" tab
Highlight the person that you want to make the new owner (in this case, it’s "Chase")
Check the box "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects"
Click "OK"
Click "Yes" when this box appears:
You will now be able to access the folders that you previously could not.
Have fun with this and don’t blame me if you do something stupid. You can do the same thing in Windows XP Home but you have to find away around the Simple File Sharing. |
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 | May 23, 2007 7:22 am -
Jokes, ill give you 4*s but seriously i cant edit them. |
 | May 23, 2007 7:35 am -
I think I forgot to add that you need to be an Administrator to do this. |
| May 23, 2007 10:08 am -
Quote: Quote:
I think I forgot to add that you need to be an Administrator to do this.
-_-
But hey, luckily for you, my other egg is about getting Administrator access |
 | May 23, 2007 12:08 pm -
my school was dumb enough at the time to not lock right click so i changed permissions that only i could access my student folder not teacher/admin.
2*’ |
 | May 23, 2007 12:38 pm -
Ill try this. 5* |
| May 23, 2007 12:38 pm -
good. 5* |
 | May 23, 2007 5:09 pm -
Quote: I think I forgot to add that you need to be an Administrator to do this.
Then whats the point of trying this? If i wanna get control of something at school, the admin has blocked like alsmost anything, so whats the point in this if he’s disabled it eh?
meh, 4* |
| May 24, 2007 8:48 am -
Quote: Quote:
I think I forgot to add that you need to be an Administrator to do this.
Then whats the point of trying this? If i wanna get control of something at school, the admin has blocked like alsmost anything, so whats the point in this if he’s disabled it eh?
meh, 4*
Quote: But hey, luckily for you, my other egg is about getting Administrator access |
 | May 24, 2007 8:38 pm -
5 |
 | May 25, 2007 4:54 am -
yay |
 | May 25, 2007 8:44 am -
I have Vista, but I feel good so I gave you a 5 |
 | May 25, 2007 3:24 pm -
good tip, dont forget if they encrypted it on ntfs all you have to do is be an admin and drag their file to a fat32 drive and it will decrypt automaticly since fat doesnt support encryption |
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