WIndows file access control

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Published on 2011-01-12T00:41:47Z Indexed on 2011/01/12 0:53 UTC
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I have a file on a Windows 2003 NTFS file system. It is called C:\MyFolder\MyFile.txt. First grant a user read access to the file. Then I remove the user's read access to the parent folder.

Now the user cannot use Windows Explorer to browse the folder and double click to open in Notepad. The user can go to Start (menu) Run and enter "C:\MyFolder\MyFile.txt" and the file will load in Notepad.

Can someone point me to some MSDN documentation that explains why this is? I've tried all the google and bing queries I can think of.

thanks much

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