Sorry Chris, but my experience is that a quick thief will just take the laptop and reformat the drive.
Regards, Riana -----Original Message----- From: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Aiden Gardiner Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 6:55 PM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Improving the security of my computers Hi Chris, Seems like a good plan. Another thing you could do it to set an account lockout policy. This means that if someone enters an incorrect password 3 times, the account gets locked for a set amount of time, after which point the person trying to log on is able to try again. if you have the pro versions of windows 7 like pro or ultimate, then you can set this via local group policy, if not, there's a command line tool for doing it, but unfortunately I can't remember the commands off the top of my head. Aiden ----- Original Message ----- From: "chris hallsworth" <christopher...@googlemail.com> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 2:24 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Improving the security of my computers > Hello all. > I will be moving to a property very soon. I am thinking on the software > side to secure my laptop so that a quick thief can't just log onto my > desktop, for example. > I have seen with server operating systems that you are required to press > ctrl+alt+delete before you can log in, even though your account(s) may not > be password protected. I see Windows 7 offers this capability but it is > off by default. > Do you think this is a good idea? > All thoughts would be greatly appreciated. > Many thanks. > -- > > From Chris H in Derbyshire > E-mail and Facebook: christopher...@googlemail.com > MSN: ch9...@hotmail.com > Skype: chrishallsworth7266 > Twitter: http://twitter.com/christopherh40 > Please visit my blog at http://chrishallsworth.klangoblog.net. > If you need any computer help, please contact me. Thank you. > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
