Password access to my desktop

Usually to get into your BIOS you have to press the 'delete' key while the computer is starting up and loads up that BIOS screen. If it's not the delete key then the screen will usually say what button to press to get into there. There will be an option in there to set up a password there.

To set up a password on Windows XP click onto the Start Menu and click on the account at the top. It should bring you to a page where you can click onto your account and set a password. If you are worried about other people getting into your files and all that then disable the Guest account, then no one but you can get onto the computer.





To make the password prompt appear after the screen saver has been turned off, you have to assign your account a password. Then go to your desktop and right click on it and scroll down to properties. Go to the screensaver tab and click the box that says, 'On resume, password protect.'



Alternatively there are other programs out there that can password protect your files and folders if you absolutely have to share your computer. Some of the programs I saw in a recent PC World magazine was like DES Lock or something like that. If you search PC World for password protecting programs I'm sure you'll find that article.

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One thing about Windows "hidden" folders is that people can log onto other accounts and still access your folders and files only if they know the exact path to them. Like if My Documents were stored in the path "C:\Documents and Settings\Computers\My Documents\Maico\Hidden Stuff" and someone logged onto another account, they wouldn't be able to see my folders when they open up the hard drive folders from My Computer or My Documents, but they could go into the run prompt and type exactly "C:\Documents and Settings\Computers\My Documents\Maico\Hidden Stuff" to bring up that folder and access the files.

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