Ref my 'I allow other people to use my computer, how can I keep my 'my folders' private and unreadable.

Question

Thanks for the answers so far, but the difficulty I'm having is with my actual emails. When I receive an email, I read, then move to a folder in 'my folder' on the left of my screen. How do I stop someone from opening them up and reading them. I've tried a couple of the suggestions but cannot find my emails anywhere to hide or disallow others to open. Please reply in baby talk because I'm a new little plum to computers and still get worried when odd things pop up on my screen. Thanks all.

Answer 1

This method applies a password to your account and sets your folders to private so nobody else can access them.

Click start
Click control panel
Click user accounts
Click on your account at the bottom (recognize your picture and name?)
Click on set password
Choose a password that you will always remember and write a clever hint that will always lead you to remember the password.
You will be required to enter the password twice so no typing errors can occur.
If you are scared to make an error you can type the password out somewhere else and copy it (Highlight it with mouse, right click, select copy, then go back to password box, right click, select paste, do again for second password block) Be sure to delete the password that you typed out somewhere else.

You will be given the option after clicking ok to set your folders to private. Select yes when this option comes available!

Thats it, now nobody can look at your folders and you have a password protecting your login.

It might be wise to set a password to your (hidden) administrative account as well so nobody can mess with your computer (ie hackers). This can be done by entering safe mode and then following the same procedure to set password.

Answer 2

You an set encryption on the folder containg the emails. This will make the folder only readable from your account (or any other account you allow) Just right click on the folder choose properties and select advanced. You would have to find out which folder on your PC the email is stored in.

Make sure you don't encrypt anything that will be used on someone elses account.

Answer 3

With Windows XP, you set up different user accounts under user accounts in the control panel. Then the people using their account can't log in to your account because they don't know the password. In addition, if you have "administrator" privileges, you can set permissions on every drive and folder individually.

Answer 4

change ur mail password
if u r asking for mails online
or offline files
put password for ur windows xp
and during that time
set up a property to keep ur files and settings private
now ur my documents on ur user id is private
now one can c ur files unless they are logged on to u r account
when u go in nearby some distance
what u do is put
ths computer on windows locked
by switch user
or hit
windows logo+l
and go
when u come back put passsword and go to ur desktop
this keepsur account logged on but no one can use inbetween that time ur out

Answer 5

Well i made my account to open with my password only So when you start up your computer nobody can use computer So when somebody else wants to go on your comp they have to put there own password in this works well for me