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how to prevent someone from using pc
Here is my question? I have 3 pc's at home, 2 are running windows 98 and 1
running xp pro. My question is, is there anyway to keep someone from using the pc's without permission, besides taking the power cords and stuff like that, can a person use a password some how????? I have seen some systems set up where you had to enter a password just for the comptuer to work.????? Please can someone help me. Thanx |
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how to prevent someone from using pc
when you say you have to enter a password just to get the computer to work,
do you mean to get it to boot or to get it to display the desktop? the bios password is fine if you want to prevent the machine from booting, however, it is not very secure because all you have to do is reset the bios (either by a motherboard jumper or by removing the cmos battery from the motherboard) in order to remove the password. i think what you want is to be able to enter a password to logon to windows. the good news is that this is quite simple with xp, but the bad news is it is not so simple with 9x. in xp, simply go to control paneluser accounts, select your user account and click "create password", enter and confirm a password; then, next time you logoff from the computer, you will see a screen with a password box and you will not be able to logon to windows without entering a password (this procedure is for both xp home and professional, but i assume you are using home). the great thing about this is that you can also create other user accounts on the computer for others to use and you can restrict their user accounts to being able only to use the computer, but not to change settings/do things that can damage it. with windows 98, the situation is a bit more sticky. you can do this, but you will really need the computers to be connected to a nt domain. and, since most home users' machines do not, the best solution would be either upgrade the machines to xp (preferred) or use third-party software (onguard http://poweronsoftware.com/products/onGuard/, n-login http://download.com.com/3000-2092-10...l?tag=lst-0-3, just search www.download.com). hope this helps you Dan DeStefano "Charles Newton" wrote in message ... Here is my question? I have 3 pc's at home, 2 are running windows 98 and 1 running xp pro. My question is, is there anyway to keep someone from using the pc's without permission, besides taking the power cords and stuff like that, can a person use a password some how????? I have seen some systems set up where you had to enter a password just for the comptuer to work.????? Please can someone help me. Thanx |
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how to prevent someone from using pc
For Windows XP, just set a password on your user account, and the built in
Administrator account. For 9x systems, see: http://www.dougknox.com/security/validated.htm to require a username and password to log on. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Charles Newton" wrote in message ... Here is my question? I have 3 pc's at home, 2 are running windows 98 and 1 running xp pro. My question is, is there anyway to keep someone from using the pc's without permission, besides taking the power cords and stuff like that, can a person use a password some how????? I have seen some systems set up where you had to enter a password just for the comptuer to work.????? Please can someone help me. Thanx |
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