What is wrong with using the Guest account?
Mike
"Malke" <malke@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> Mike McCollister wrote:
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>> I forgot to mention that I am running Windows Home Premium.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> "Mike McCollister" <MikeMcCollister_DELETEME_@hotmail.com> wrote in
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>>>I have an external drive on my vista machine that has gives "Users" full
>>>control. I just found out that the guest account is part of the "Users"
>>>group. Is there a group that does not include the guest account?
>>>Basically
>>>I don't want to have my backup drive accessible to the guest account. Is
>>>that possible without replacing "Users" with each individual account?</span></span>
>
> The Guest account is normally disabled. Apparently for some unknown reason
> you've enabled yours. Disable it and the problem goes away. If you want to
> have an individual account for visitors, make one (Standard user account)
> and called it something clever like "Visitors". To protect yourself in
> case
> of account corruption, you should be working from a Standard user account
> for your daily stuff anyway with at least one extra Administrative user
> account set up for emergencies. Then if you want to log in and go directly
> to the Desktop (into one particular user's account) for convenience, you
> can do this. The instructions at this link work for both XP and Vista:
>
> Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
>
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm
>
> All that aside, if you want to keep the contents on your external hard
> drive
> private, consider encrypting it with something like TrueCrypt (free).
>
> Malke
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