Many people who have at their disposal a personal computer, of course, have repeatedly thought about the security of their data stored on it. The most important problem for an information machine is, of course, viruses, but not a single anti-virus program will save you from unauthorized use of personal data by a real user.
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If there is no password on your computer when entering the system, each person who has access to it can freely use all the installed resources. Thus, anyone can change your settings, copy or delete important information for you. The best solution in this matter may be a password to enter the system. Wanting to protect personal data stored on a computer, people often ask themselves: "How to password protect the entrance to the computer?"To the cause!
In fact, there is nothing complicated in the process, this article will provide several options for setting a password for various operating systems. The most common and well-known operating systems are the Mac OS, the Windows X-OS, the Windows 7 OS and the Windows 8 OS.
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Initially, in this operating system, all users have equal access to computer resources at the administrator level, in order to change this and reserve only such a right, it is necessary to make changes to the Admin account. How to do it? In the lower left corner in the "Start" you need to select the "Control Panel" section, after which an image with a choice of categories will appear on the screen. You need to select the category “Accounts” by clicking on it. Next, you need to change the settings in the accounts, for this you need to click on the task “Change account”. Two account icons will appear on the screen, one of them is “Admin”, if you have not previously replaced this name with your own, and the second “Guest”. It’s also possible to use a guest account so that other users can use your computer,but only with disabilities. Next, you need to select the desired account by clicking on it, and in the list of operations that appears, select the item "Create Password".What is important to know about the password!
Be sure to invent a password for yourself that is easy to remember, or if everything simple is not for you, then write it down for yourself, somewhere, to be safe. Having forgotten the password, you simply cannot log into your computer. By the way, here, after the password is entered and confirmed, the system will ask you to enter a hint for it. How to change the password? The list of operations with user accounts also has the item “Change Password”, so you can do this at any time.
Windows 7 operating system
How to password protect a computer on Windows 7? Like Windows XP, you must perform the same operations to go to the User Accounts category. First you need to go to the "Start", then click on "Control Panel" and select "User Accounts and Family Security" in the list of categories. In this operating system, the creator offers two sub-items in the account category, one almost identical to previous versions of Windows. This is “Creating and deleting user accounts,” and the second is “Setting parental controls for all users.” In the latter, you can also set time limits, access to games, etc. How do I make a password? If you click on the admin icon,a window appears with a list of suggested operations. Select the operation "Create Password", after which the system will prompt you to enter the password you have created and confirm it. Then it remains only to click on the "Create Password" button. There is also a hint option, you can enter it if in doubt.
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This article provided instructions for setting passwords on the most current operating systems. Now you know how to password protect your computer and you can safely set and change passwords on your computer, thereby protecting your "information brainchild" from prying eyes and hands.