No "Security" tab in XP Home

I'm using the info in this link to turn off the 'nag' screen that appears when updating Avira's free AntiVir. I've used these same steps dozens of times w/o any problems, but today I have a PC running XP Home SP3, and there's no "Security" tab, even in Safe Mode when logged in as Administrator!!! And since XP Home doesn't have Security Policy settings in Admin Tools in the Control Panel, I'm a bit stuck.... How do I revive the "Security" tab???

Thanks!

[dlb]

 

Maybe this will help: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_home_sectab.htm

Explains how to go about adding a security tab to Home. Doesn't take long and works fine, but pay close attention to the warning at the bottom.

 

roflmao

@ plastidust: thanks! I'll check it out!

 

@ plastidust: thanks again for the link . . . it worked PERFECTLY!!! The whole thing was a bit weird since the 'Security' tab didn't show up in Safe Mode, and it always shows up in Safe Mode! LOL

 

Glad you folks can put it to good use.

 

Yeah- I know- this is an old thread..... HOWEVER, I do have new info here.... I've been fighting with a PC for the past 30 minutes trying to get the security tab to appear using the info in the links provided above by plastidust. No dice. I did some intensive Googling and always ended up with the same instructions. BUT- then a little blurb on a German site that I ran thru Google Translate turned on the light.... the above steps ONLY WORK IF THE DRIVE IS FORMATTED NTFS!!!! If the drive is FAT32, it is impossible to get the Security tab to appear. So, after struggling for over 30 minutes, I read this, and sure enough, the drive was FAT32. I ran the quick convert to NTFS (using this command at a command prompt: convert e: /fs:ntfs where e: is the drive you want to convert, and there's a space between the "e:" and the "/fs:ntfs"), then added the Security tab, and all is well.
:-D

 

Sorry dlb, whether it would work or not on FAT32 never even crossed my mind.

 

LOL Yeah, me neither. And I never thought to check to see if the drive was formatted FAT32 or NTFS. I haven't seen a FAT32 XP Home install in over a year (and I see at least 10 PCs a day, usually closer to 20). No worries! It all worked out. I just figured I'd post here in case someone else ran into trouble.... it has something to do with the FAT32 file system and their partitions not having a 'permissions' feature (???) which seems weird. I always that Windows controlled the permissions, not the file system, but, whatever.... then again, I used Google Translate from German, so something may have been lost in translation (we know how those things go! LOL)