Increase your XP security by removing the Everyone Security Access

I have been using Windows XP Professional for years now never bothered with the whole Vista upgrade seemed just like window dressing to me, I am considering upgrade to windows 7 in the mean time for all you XP devotees here is a great tip.

Remove the EVERYONE access from your drives this is easy to do all you need to do is double click My Computer, find your primary partition C: drive local disc then right click and choose properties and find the security tab, then remove the everyone group , don't panic you still have the ADMIN and SYSTEM and USERS groups, click remove and apply.



NOTE: If you have Windows XP Home you don't have this by default the easiest way to add the tab is to use FileSecPatch.exe this will change one byte in the rshx32.dll (abackslash to a space at 0x9F0) and save it under a new dll name it will then registers the new dll

(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{1F2E5C40-9550-11CE-99D2-00AA006E086C}InProcServer32).

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This also takes effect immediately so you will know if it has worked you can also remove the patch whenever you wish, this is much easier than the forum at the Neowin forums so only use this method if the patch above causes you problems.

All you need to do when you have the Security tab is follow the same procedure as for XP Professional

Alternative method for the security tab is to use FJXPFileSecExt this will add its own version of the tab DON'T use the two together I prefer the FileSecPatch to the FJXPFileSecExt, however it's up to you, here is the Security Patch Extension from FJXP

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