Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Displaying The Security Tab In XP Home Edition

When trying to share a folder and providing access to users on the network by right clicking on the folder and going to properties, displays only three tabs 'General', 'Sharing' and 'Customize' but not the 'Security' tab unlike in Windows XP Professional. One way to get the 'Security' tab back is to uncheck the "Use simple file sharing(Recommended)" option under Tools->Folder Options->View. In Windows XP Home this can be rectified by downloading the scesp4i.exe file and extracting the files. Right click on the Setup.inf file and click install, which brings up the 'Security' tab on the properties menu after restarting the system.

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