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darkdred
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:03 am Post subject:
passwords on the welcome screen |
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There are 3 users on my computer at home, me & the kids. In order to make
sure they had permission to use the computer, i put passwords on the welcome
screen relating to each of their accounts. I don't remember the exact message
i got when doing this, but is was something like 'make a password backup
floppy before proceeding'. I did not do this, so to see what would happen, i
only put passwords on the kids' files, knowing they did not have many to
recover. Initially when they tried signing in after, the computer did not
recognize their password. I didn't do anything fancy to try solving this, as
i am not good with that part of the computer. I did, however, go into the
account information thinking that i would try entering the original hotmail
password they had just to see, or change it to something new if needed.
Turned out that i didn't get through that process when the computer
automatically went into their account, using the original password. Now
everything is fine with that but here's my real concern. I did not put a
password on my account in the welcome screen because i have many passwords
and accounts in there i did not wish to loose. I need to put a password on my
file however, because the kids can obviously access the computer through my
file. What can you suggest? Should i take the chance and do to mine what i
did with the kids' files, or do you have more info on this backup password
thing? Thanks for looking. |
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Unk
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Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:28 am Post subject:
Re: passwords on the welcome screen |
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On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 10:03:06 -0800, "darkdred" <darkdred@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
| Quote: | There are 3 users on my computer at home, me & the kids. In order to make
sure they had permission to use the computer, i put passwords on the welcome
screen relating to each of their accounts. I don't remember the exact message
i got when doing this, but is was something like 'make a password backup
floppy before proceeding'. I did not do this, so to see what would happen, i
only put passwords on the kids' files, knowing they did not have many to
recover. Initially when they tried signing in after, the computer did not
recognize their password. I didn't do anything fancy to try solving this, as
i am not good with that part of the computer. I did, however, go into the
account information thinking that i would try entering the original hotmail
password they had just to see, or change it to something new if needed.
Turned out that i didn't get through that process when the computer
automatically went into their account, using the original password. Now
everything is fine with that but here's my real concern. I did not put a
password on my account in the welcome screen because i have many passwords
and accounts in there i did not wish to loose. I need to put a password on my
file however, because the kids can obviously access the computer through my
file. What can you suggest? Should i take the chance and do to mine what i
did with the kids' files, or do you have more info on this backup password
thing? Thanks for looking.
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To add a password to your account, click Start, Settings, Control Panel, User Accounts, click
your account, click "Change my password". Use a password you can't forget. LastName comma
FirstName. IE: Smith, Jack
If you're using NTFS, you can encrypt that folder and set the permissions to only you.
Right-click the folder, select Properties, click the Advanced button, and check the box,
"Encrypt contents to secure data", OK, click the Security tab and set the permissions to only
you. Practice on a test folder first. That way, if you screw the permissions up, you won't
lose anything important. WARNING: Adjusting the permissions on a drive, file or folder can
lock even the Administrator account out of that drive/file/folder. Deny Permissions take
precedence over Allow Permissions, regardless of your group membership. Administrators are
members of the User's group, by default. Uncheck Allow, rather than using Deny.
If your not using NTFS, you'll need third party software like "Folder Guard".
http://www.winability.com/folderguard/ |
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darkdred
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Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:28 am Post subject:
Re: passwords on the welcome screen |
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sorry, but what is NTFS? as for your reply, i'll give it a try and let you
know.
"Unk" wrote:
| Quote: | On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 10:03:06 -0800, "darkdred" <darkdred@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
There are 3 users on my computer at home, me & the kids. In order to make
sure they had permission to use the computer, i put passwords on the welcome
screen relating to each of their accounts. I don't remember the exact message
i got when doing this, but is was something like 'make a password backup
floppy before proceeding'. I did not do this, so to see what would happen, i
only put passwords on the kids' files, knowing they did not have many to
recover. Initially when they tried signing in after, the computer did not
recognize their password. I didn't do anything fancy to try solving this, as
i am not good with that part of the computer. I did, however, go into the
account information thinking that i would try entering the original hotmail
password they had just to see, or change it to something new if needed.
Turned out that i didn't get through that process when the computer
automatically went into their account, using the original password. Now
everything is fine with that but here's my real concern. I did not put a
password on my account in the welcome screen because i have many passwords
and accounts in there i did not wish to loose. I need to put a password on my
file however, because the kids can obviously access the computer through my
file. What can you suggest? Should i take the chance and do to mine what i
did with the kids' files, or do you have more info on this backup password
thing? Thanks for looking.
To add a password to your account, click Start, Settings, Control Panel, User Accounts, click
your account, click "Change my password". Use a password you can't forget. LastName comma
FirstName. IE: Smith, Jack
If you're using NTFS, you can encrypt that folder and set the permissions to only you.
Right-click the folder, select Properties, click the Advanced button, and check the box,
"Encrypt contents to secure data", OK, click the Security tab and set the permissions to only
you. Practice on a test folder first. That way, if you screw the permissions up, you won't
lose anything important. WARNING: Adjusting the permissions on a drive, file or folder can
lock even the Administrator account out of that drive/file/folder. Deny Permissions take
precedence over Allow Permissions, regardless of your group membership. Administrators are
members of the User's group, by default. Uncheck Allow, rather than using Deny.
If your not using NTFS, you'll need third party software like "Folder Guard".
http://www.winability.com/folderguard/
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