Help: How to make files permanently private on Vista/Windows 7?
 

How do I make my user files (my documents, pictures) private in Vista/Windows 7?

In XP, when you are creating a password for an account, it will ask whether you want to make your files private or not. If you click yes, it will make all the files in your document private. A user from another account can't access those files, whether they are standard user or administrator.

But I was just exploring Windows 7, and accidentally clicked on the user folder for the account I set up for my brother. It prompted me for something, I clicked it, and I was given full access to all his folders (he doesn't have anything in them).

So I tried creating another account in Vista, and creating a password for it. Again, I was able to access all the files when I logged back to my admin account. In XP, once you created a password, no one, not even administrator can access the files of that account.

Is this a loop hole?? This basically means anyone as an admin on Vista can access anyone's files, which makes separate user account useless, because in the end, I can just access their file from my account??

IIRC ...

C:\Users
Right-Click on your Username folder
Properties
Security
Edit
Remove Administrators
Click OK