gordythegouge Posted September 1, 2007 Report Share Posted September 1, 2007 How do I set up a password for my wife's office PC to prevent others from using the PC when she's not there?Is there a way to do this before windows XP actually loads?Gordy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike567 Posted September 1, 2007 Report Share Posted September 1, 2007 Could always use bartpe i believe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted September 2, 2007 Report Share Posted September 2, 2007 At the command prompt, type control userpasswords2, then create a user login password. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seshomaru Samma Posted September 2, 2007 Report Share Posted September 2, 2007 You can always set a BIOS password Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike567 Posted September 2, 2007 Report Share Posted September 2, 2007 would be better using net user username* to put a password on it rather than control userpasswords2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordythegouge Posted September 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2007 Thanks all for the info, I think I'm ready to sort out the problem! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted September 3, 2007 Report Share Posted September 3, 2007 I always think it advisable to think very carefully before doing anything like this. If the password, for whatever reason, is lost/forgotten/otherwise irretrievable you then have a large box of expensive junk.OK, it may be possible to recover but it isn't easy (if it was what was the point of password protecting it in the first place?)You can't think "it won't happen to me", I've seen it so many times - the last time when this "friend of a friend" had lost his porn collection (hidden from his wife) because he had forgotten the password to his "secure" filing system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike567 Posted September 3, 2007 Report Share Posted September 3, 2007 its really not hard to recover passwords, you can either boot in safe mode and then change the password using cmd or can also use some tools already out their :). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted September 3, 2007 Report Share Posted September 3, 2007 its really not hard to recover passwords, you can either boot in safe mode and then change the password using cmd or can also use some tools already out their :).As I said, if it's easy to defeat the password, there isn't much point in having it in the first place! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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