Missing Security Tab-Tried standard solution

[Dave]

I installed XP Pro (SP1) as a new install over an XP Home
installation and several folders and files are
inaccessible no matter how I set permissions. One article
I read on making such folders/files accessible suggested
a change in the Security section of Properties. Right-
clicking any folder/file on my machine and selecting
Properties shows no Security tab. So after further
research, several articles suggest going into My
Computer, choosing Tools-Folder Options-View and
deselecting Use Simple File Sharing (recommended) and
clicking OK to apply the change. This, in theory, would
make the Security tab appear. All articles agreed on
this. But after following those instructions, I still
have no Security tab and am becoming frustrated at no
being able to acces my files. Short of backing-up and
reformatting as FAT32 instead of NTFS, is there any other
way to make these folders/files accesible again? Any help
would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you
..

 

[TC]

Sorry, this group is for Microsoft Access, the database product.

TC

 

[Jack MacDonald]

This newsgroup is about security issues with the Microsoft Access
database product. You will probably have more success in a Windows
newsgroup.

I installed XP Pro (SP1) as a new install over an XP Home
installation and several folders and files are
inaccessible no matter how I set permissions. One article
I read on making such folders/files accessible suggested
a change in the Security section of Properties. Right-
clicking any folder/file on my machine and selecting
Properties shows no Security tab. So after further
research, several articles suggest going into My
Computer, choosing Tools-Folder Options-View and
deselecting Use Simple File Sharing (recommended) and
clicking OK to apply the change. This, in theory, would
make the Security tab appear. All articles agreed on
this. But after following those instructions, I still
have no Security tab and am becoming frustrated at no
being able to acces my files. Short of backing-up and
reformatting as FAT32 instead of NTFS, is there any other
way to make these folders/files accesible again? Any help
would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you
.

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