how to create password on the compute for security?r

[xxx]

Hello, can someone teach the step to put your password on your personal computer so without my password, nobody can used my computer not even open the window.

[axion_sa]

Which operating system you using?

[axion_sa]

Well, assumption is you're using 98.

The main problem with 9x security is that the user passwords are stored in [username].pwl file somewhere in the windows directory, and by moving/deleting these files, you have gained access to good old Windows.

You could add a BIOS password. The problem with this is that by just removing the BIOS battery, wave bye bye to that password.

Force Win 9X/Me Logon:
Create users for your system in the Users "wizard" in the Control panel.
Go to HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and modify (create if it doesn't exist) the string value named "NoLogon" (without quotes) and set it's value to "RUNDLL32 shell32,SHExitWindowsEx 0", again without quotes.

Restricting applications that can be run (All versions of Windows):
This has to be done for each user that has access to the computer.

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer and create a new DWORD value and name it "RestrictRun" and set it's to 1 (enabled) or 0 (disabled).
To define the applications that CAN be run, create a new string with the application's name as it's value and consecutive numbers as the name in the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\RestrictRun. You might want to put regedit.exe in there aswell, for when you want to change these values.
e.g:
Name Type Data
(Default) REG_SZ (value not set)
1 REG_SZ "regedit.exe"
2 REG_SZ "notepad.exe"
3 REG_SZ "word.exe"

[JoshT]

FYI, you can boot off a DOS floppy and get files from the hardware. And there's even a DOS NTFS driver for NT/2K...

[parksie]

You can access NTFS from DOS, Win9x, GNU/Linux (it's specifically in the kernel to read, although writing is still in the experimental 2.5 branch).

[Sastraxi]

I can't wait for 2.5 kernels, NTFS writing is what I'm looking for, hello IE in Linux

[parksie]

You can't run IE on Unix....well, you *could* but MS have dropped support and it was only available as binaries for the Suns or something like that.

Why NTFS writing? There are better filesystems...

[JoshT]

Originally posted by parksie
You can access NTFS from DOS, Win9x, GNU/Linux (it's specifically in the kernel to read, although writing is still in the experimental 2.5 branch).

Yeah, but I can boot off a floppy for emergency recovery...

[Sastraxi]

Originally posted by parksie
You can't run IE on Unix....well, you *could* but MS have dropped support and it was only available as binaries for the Suns or something like that.

Why NTFS writing? There are better filesystems...

I'm sorry, I provided a TOTAL lack of information there, IE requires writing logs for it to function, and emulating it under Wine was impossible with my 2k/NTFS and Mandrake/EXT3 dualboot. But now, hopefully, it won't be!

[parksie]

VMWare

I wouldn't hold your breath for it, it's marked as "extremely dangerous" at the moment

PS: Why run IE? For testing?

[xxx]

Hei too many people telling something that I don't understand PLEASE just tell me the step to do OK. That would be straight forward and easy.

[da_silvy]

BIOS Password:

Just boot up your computer, press DEL (or whatever it suggests -= "Press DEL to enter setup")

Then there is a security option there to set a boot password..

[parksie]

Easy to break. Just short out the BIOS and restart.