User-specific restrictions

With Folder Guard, you can set up different restrictions for different users of your computer. For instance, you can make a folder visible when you log in to Windows, but remain hidden when some other user logs in. Folder Guard uses the built-in Windows user accounts, that is it distinguishes between different users by the names they enter when they log in to computer.

To control which restrictions should apply to which users, use the User List of Folder Guard. (If it is not visible when you open the main window of Folder Guard, choose the View - User List command from the menu to make it visible.)

The User List originally contains only one item: Default. This user name is used to set up the restrictions that would apply to all users for whom no user-specific restrictions have been set up. To create restrictions that would apply to specific users, first use the User list command on the Protect menu to add the user names to the User List. Then, to set up the restrictions for a user, simply select that user's name in the User List, and assign the desired attributes to the folders: they would be applied to the selected user only.

For example, if you want to hide the folder named A Private Folder located on the C: drive from all users except yourself, first select the Default name in the User List, and apply the hidden and no access attributes to this folder:

(More information on how to hide folders with Folder Guard is available here.) Now use the User list command on the Protect menu to add your login name to the User List. (In this example we assume that your login name is Admin.)

Finally, select your user name (Admin in this example) in the User List and assign the visible and full access attributes to the same folder:

That's it, the user-specific protection of the folder has been set up! To see how the folder will be protected for each user, simply select the user's name in question in the User List, and the images displayed next to the folders will show how each user will be able to see and access each folder.

Of course, if you have other users, you can set up restrictions specific to them, too. For instance, if you want some users to be able to see and open files from your private folder, but not to save any changes to them, you would assign the read-only attribute to the folder for such users. If you don't assign any user-specific attributes to a folder, then when such a user logs in to the computer, the restrictions specified for the Default user would apply.