Re: Windows ME securing files with a password
As you have found WinME was never made to be as secure as later versions
of Windows and I think the only way to achieve what you want would be to
set a BIOS password if your machine is capable of it, that way it would
need the password before the OS started to load but you would have to be
careful not to lose it or you could find yourself locked out of your
machine.
If you need help with WinME problems why not visit
microsoft.public.windowsme.general where you will get all the help you
need from experts with that OS.
Joan
Birdman wrote:
> 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!