Password protecting

I am going on holiday and am having my house sat.
I trust the person sitting my house and she will use my PC.
However, I would like to password protect a few folders with banking info.
How can I do this?
I have Vista Premium.
Thanks all

Cos

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>I am going on holiday and am having my house sat.
> I trust the person sitting my house and she will use my PC.
> However, I would like to password protect a few folders with banking info.


If it were me, no matter how much I trusted the person I would not trust her
not to accidentally screw something up, get the computer infected with
malware, etc. I wouldn't dream of letting someone else use my computer while
I was away.

But if you insist, what I recommend is that you copy those folders to a
thumb drive, then delete them from the computer entirely. Lock up the thumb
drive, then restore from it after you return home.

Cosmo wrote:
> I am going on holiday and am having my house sat.
> I trust the person sitting my house and she will use my PC.
> However, I would like to password protect a few folders with banking info.
> How can I do this?
> I have Vista Premium.
> Thanks all
>
> Cos


Like WinNT, Win2K, and WinXP before it, Vista's file security
paradigm doesn't rely on, or allow, the crude and cumbersome method of
password protection for individual applications, files, or folders.
Instead, it uses the superior method of explicitly assigning file/folder
permissions to individual users and/or groups.

As a crude work-around, you can place the file in a compressed
folder, and set a password to uncompress the folder to view/access its
contents. Also, some applications allow the user to password-protect
their specific data files. Read the specific application's Help files
for further information on this capability.

For your situation, the simplest course of action would be to create a
limited user account for your house-sitter's use, and configure it so it
doesn't have permissions to access your personal files.


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Cosmo wrote:
> I am going on holiday and am having my house sat.
> I trust the person sitting my house and she will use my PC.
> However, I would like to password protect a few folders with
> banking
> info. How can I do this?
> I have Vista Premium.
> Thanks all
>
> Cos

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