Admin account cannot access folder after permission for Users is denied

Hi! Can someone help me understand how the Windows XP permissions work?

I want to deny access to a folder for normal users so that only admin accounts can access it.

However, if I deny the access to a folder for user group "Users", I cannot access the folder also from my custom (not the default "administrator") administrator account. Why is that?

If I look at the properties of my admin account, it is a member of "Administrators" and "Debugger Users", not of "Users" which should be the ones with the denied access...

 

here is my understanding of windows permisions. there are 3 types on accounts: admin, private, public. when you create an admin account, it deosnt have restrictions to any file of you pc. When you create private accounts, those accounts are only limited to see/modify whats in their space in the drive. An accounts 'space' is usually displayed under 'my computer'. they appear as folders named whatever the account is named i.e administrator, John Doe, etc. admins are able to go into all folders to see/mod/delete files. Private accounts can only see/mod/delete files from their repective folder and the public accounts. Public accounts can only mod/see/delete files from the public folder. If you want other users not to be able to access files just drop them in you admin folder.

 

Thank you for the reply!

The thing is my system disk is pretty small, so I don't want to put in Documents and Settings more than necessarry. I'm storing my data on another disk, where I want to set those permissions.

So, in addition to that admin/private/public protection you mentioned WinXP offers, there is still more. If I click "Properties" on some folder and then choose "Security", there is a possibility to set all kinds of permissions and also change the owner of the folder. This is where I got lost with the administrator account not being able to access a folder which is denied for Users group.

 

do you know if your admin account can access the folder while in safe mode?

 

not sure

 

sorry wrong thread