Re: Windows ME securing files with a password
The truth is that Windows ME (and Win9x) have no security model
built into them whatsoever. You are wanting to do things that those
DOS based operating systems were not designed to support. For
example, as you noticed, the "password" is actually just like sugar
frosting put on a cake to make the junk inside seem good. It is not
really protecting anything at all.
Probably the best you can do if you are going to stay at WinMe is
to get something that gives you the ability to encrypt the files over
which you have concern.
Roger
"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!
>
>