Why File Security Manager?
Modern network-ready and secure operating systems provide us with concept of Access Control. It means the ability to grant different access permissions to individual resources (like files and folders) for different users of the system, local and network ones. For example, a certain file can be permitted to be read but not written to. Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn’t provide tools for controlling access with Windows XP Home version (although this capability does exist within the Windows XP Professional, as you can see here at the Microsoft website in the Windows XP Comparison Guide). Windows XP Home provides small tool – “cacls”, but there are no GUI (grapchical interface) for this tool and you can not disable simple file sharing and make available security tab if you use Windows XP Home. Nevertheless, if you are Windows XP Home user, you can use File Security Manager software to obtain the control over all NTFS permissions.
