Re: Windows ME securing files with a password
"Birdman" <Birdman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8D792AB2-0645-4E16-B1EB-95356DBA1D62@microsoft.com...
> Using windows me. I've put my name in as a new user and on startup the
> computer correctly asks me for my password. And when the password is
> entered, the computer correctly finishes booting up.
>
> The problem is, if I click on cancel when prompted for the password, the
> computer boots up with, I assume, me as a guest, and I still have full
> access
> to the computer.
>
> And this leaves me wondering what's the purpose of setting a username and
> password.
>
> What I'd like to do is set a global password. When the computer boots up
> it
> would say something like "What's the password?" If the password is not
> given
> the computer is not accessable.
>
> Or another idea is if the username and password is not given then certain
> parts of the computer are not accessable.
>
> Or in other words, how do the wife and I keep our 15 year old daughter
> (and
> her friends) out of our personal files without unplugging the computer and
> putting it in a 100 plus pound safe?
>
> Help! Help!
>
>
Not much in Windows ME. I means a lot more in later editions of Windows
with NTFS formatted hard drives.
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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
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