Windows Xp User acount

[iadas]

Hello,

I hope I can get some help here...the Xp help functions are making me go cross-eyed.

Here's the situation. I bought a Dell for mainly school work, and my parents and I made a deal where my sister and brother could also use the computer, and they would pay for the cable modem.

Seems like a good deal, so I go for it. But ever since then no file on my machine is safe. They have been either deleted, ot modified to the point where I can't remember if I got back everything in there....so I go to set up a limited user account. I make myself the Admin and restrict the old Admin user id to cause less confusion for everyone.

So I open it up and I see that I can access every file from the other user account...Windows help says that is normal, but they won't be able to see the files that I add...so I create a test.txt doc and put it in a folder. Log back to the other account, and there is it...and I can modify it.

So my question to you is how can i continue to use the new admin account, but keep any new file I put on there to myself and myself only?

I don't care if I can't see the files that they add on there (becasuse I can still just log onto that account), but I don't want them to see or have access to any more of my files for school.

Thanks in Advance!!

*edit* one other thing I forgot to mention. I know I can right click on a folder and go to properties, and there is a option to click that says make this folder private....but will that only work for new ones that I have created? Because all of the other ones that were made from the other user account can not be checked.

[Play_The_0dds]

when you created your admin account, it should have gave you the option to "keep my files private" another use may be able to see files you add or have on the C: drive ect. but shouldnt be able to access them, anything you want them to have access to either right click the file, go to properties, sharring and security, set access for it. or put in the my shared folders that come default on xp. to make your files private you must also have a password, when you log on you will have to click your log in icon and enter this password, if you didnt create one when you made the account just go to control panel, user accounts, click on your account, create a password, you may be given the option to make your files private after creating the password.