Need to lock down ME

[Rick]

Okay, my secretary at work is running (taking a deep breath) WinMe with all of our sensitive info on it. (My bosses decision...not my choice). I was asked to find an app that can password lock WinMe so that the computer cannot be restarted or anything to get on windows. There may be a way to do this without software...I just don't know how on WinMe...Can somebody help me out?

Rick

[sedative]

look in the bios, see if it supports password protection. prompting for a password every time you boot. that would be your best bet.

[aKaFrEE]

thats exactly what i was thinking...sed just beat me to it. if your tryin to keep people off that arent supposed to be there..lock the bios. but if the computer is still on then..thats a diff story

[Rick]

Yeah...I checked that..no bios lock or the job would have been done.

Rick

[FthrJACK]

i can help you out rick...

theres a few lock apps on the new order site

Here

[Big Booger]

Rick,

I found this for your issue:

Forcing users to enter password during login

Unlike Windows NT/2000, the login window in Windows 9x/Me can be easily bypassed by pressing the [Esc] key or by clicking Cancel. So, it's possible that a third person who turns on your PC can gain access to your personal information. To prevent this from happening, first make sure that the user profiles are created and enabled for each user, and that the Include Start Menu and Program Groups in User Settings' option in the Control Panel is enabled for each user.

Reboot the PC in Safe Mode by hitting the [F8] key during Startup and choosing Safe Mode from the Boot Options. This is very important because if something goes wrong, you can always reboot your computer in the safe mode and rectify the problem.

Type regedit.exe in Start > Run. Find the following key in the Registry: HKEY_USERS/Default/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run. In the right-hand pane, right-click and choose New String Values, and rename it as FixLogon. Finally, open the FixLogon entry you've just created (by double-clicking on the right-pane of the Registry Editor window) and specify the following command as its Value data: rundll.exe user.exe, EXITWINDOWS. Reboot your PC to save the changes. If you want to restore the old setting, delete this key.

Don't ask me if it works, but it's worth a shot.

BB

[tomwithalaptop]

There is a free system lock that you can download that will lock your desktop like the nt ,2000 and xp style and you have to enter the right password to access the computer again. You can also set it to lock on startup so no-one false resets it.

heres the url

http://www.r2.com.au/software.php?page=2&show=syslock