Missing or No Security Tab Found in Windows XP Professional

Security tab in Windows XP Professional is the important functionality that enable administrators and users to define security permissions and rights for particular users. By default, Windows XP follows recommended setting to enable the use of simple file sharing that hide the Security tab, leaving you with only General, Sharing, Web Sharing & Customize tabs as in the Simple File Sharing UI.

Now just use the following steps:

Launch Windows Explorer or My Computer.
Click on the Tools at the menu bar, then click on Folder Options.
Click on View tab.

In the Advanced Settings section at the bottom of the list, uncheck and unselect (clear the tick) on the "use simple file sharing"check box.
Click OK.

Security tab is available only to Administrator. So make sure you login as one. And security can only be set in an NTFS partition. If you’re still having problem to reveal or display the Security tab on files or folder properties, check out the following registry tricks and set the value to 0 or simply delete the key:


Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key: Software\Microsoft\windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Name: Nosecuritytab
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1

Posted in: Missing or No Security Tab Found in Windows XP Professional