From: "Stephen Bird"
(clipped) (Nice summary BTW...)
>A reboot approach might be limited by an encrypted MBR
> and/or encrypted partitions.
Now you are getting into the "meat" of XP...
Use XP (NTFS only) (May not be in "Home"??) to encrypt your files
(or folder/partitions??) for certain users.
Then, other users (meaning the office peeps too) will be read-locked out unless
they are really good... -- even if they re-boot and "get in" to the OS as a
different
user, or with BartPE or XPPE...
Note when I say read-locked out, they "might(?)" be able to delete... (Not
good.)
(I have seen dumber stuff other places...)
Side note:
I had something that had a software password boot screen that came with an MB...
I was using it, but I either set something wrong eventually, or it failed.
All the hackers were locked out all the time, but I eventually got locked out!!!
(This is why things like this are very scary to me!!!)
This was on a "clone" HD that I was "just fooling around on", so no harm done...
If there is an office door, lock it, forget it, and be MUCH safer...
PS: A quick Google search found the following: (Not tested, but seems good to
me.)
While re-booting, the REAL "original install system admin" can log in and change
ANY/all "local admin" and "local user" passwords... So really, it all depends on
what "credentials" (if any) they can supply... This also means if they are a
"local"
admin of your computer, they can change your password and then get in "most" of
your stuff... This gets us back to NTFS encryption... (I don't use it so I
have to stop
now...)
Try the MBR encryption stuff and let us know how it works, --- (if you can
<grin>)...
Rick Glazier
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