How do I keep other people off a 98se computer? 1 more question.

[purplecow]

Don't use passwords for users in Win9x, it's completely useless. You can just press the ESC button and it boots up like normal.

 

[jaywallen]

Yup, pretty much useless, unless everybody just has to have her/his own wallpaper or something.

 

[Topochicho]

thant can be disabled, we have the machines at work setup to only allow entry with password, no Esc or cancel will work.

 

[bacillus]

nice idea Joemonkey!

 

[buck]

Thanks jaywallen, thats what I needed. I know its worthless, but I dont want my wife to deal with seeing it everytime.
Thanks!
Matt

 

[Courtland]

in win 9x/ME the passwords are encrypted in a pwl file. so lets say you have a user named blahman, the file would be blahman.pwl located in your windows directory. you can just delete this file and the password is removed and the user is gone.

 

[vi edit]

Use poledit, set up users, and then tell it to require a password before booting into windows. You can no longer escape past the login, or just type in another user name and password.

 

[jaywallen]

Well, we shouldn't actually say that it's useless or worthless. If someone likes it, it's not worthless. When I said "useless" I just meant that the functionality of User Names / Passwords on (non-networked) Win9X PCs is pretty much limited to "window-dressing" features. Being a curmudgeonly old geezer who still distrusts anything but the "green screen", I tend to feel that Windows brings out the interior decorator in all of us. It may be good for our artistic sides, but I suspect that it interferes with productivity.

I'm glad the information was helpful, Matt. You might want to get your wife a cattle prod (or that rottweiler) to fend off the twinkies who keep attacking her keyboard!

Best regards,
Jim

 

[bacillus]

should you want to persue the bios password route, then set a bios password & change the hdd detection from auto to none! the system should not boot till detection is put back to auto!

 

[Phatty106]

If you get sick of the BIOS password, you can use a program such as this.

It only costs $15 to register, and it seems like it has lots of features.

phatty