Directions for Securing your PC

Here you will find directions on how to secure your PC from someone gaining access to it.  This "tutorial" will guide you through two sets of steps in locking your pc down when it is started and when it is left alone for an extended period of time.

Section ONE:  Adding a password to your User Account.
Adding a password to your account is the first process that MUST be done to securing your PC.  Once you've done this process, your PC will require the password you selected to get in to.  Without the password, there is no way to access the contents of the computer.

STEP	DESCRIPTION	ILLUSTRATION (CLICK TO ENLARGE)
Step 1	Start by click on the START button and then CONTROL PANEL
Step 2	Once in the CONTROL PANEL, click on USER ACCOUNTS
Step 2	Once you are in the USER ACCOUNTS, again Click on USER ACCOUNTS
Step 4	This will take you to the list of Users available on your PC.  On this screen, you should insure that only the people you want to authorize access should be listed.  Only one name on here should be something that you haven't "created".  That is the Guest Account.  This cannot be deleted, but it can be turned off.  Insure that the status next it's icon reads "Guest account is off".  If it doesn't, click on the guest icon once and the press the button that turns it off.   After you've checked (or turned off the guest account) click on another Account.  This will take you to that user's account page.
Step 5	You now want to change the user's password, by clicking on the green boxed arrow next to the choice by the same name
Step 6	You are not at the Password screen.  The areas that you need to fill are like this:   Type in your current password: More than likely if you don't use a password to access your PC already, then this is blank.  You don't need to type anything here Type a new password: There is where you type in the password you want.  Try not to make it too easy to guess by people that know you or securing your PC won't be worth much.  It's always good to use capital and lower case letters and also numbers... like this:  BaRt1   or  2Fast4U.   Be sure to pay attention where you place the capital letters. Type the new password again to confirm Here is where you retype the password.   This is here because you actually can't see what you're typing above.  This is kind of a test to make sure you typed it the way you wanted it to be. Type a word or phrase as your password hint: Here you can type in just about anything you need to help you remember your password incase you forget it when you're trying to logon to your PC.
Step 7	Repeat these steps for each user that you have on your PC.   (It may require each person to log in as themselves)

Section TWO:  Setting up your Screensaver.
This section is easier to do, but a MUST if you want to protect your PC in the event you decide to leave it on and walk away from it.

STEP	DESCRIPTION	ILLUSTRATION (CLICK TO ENLARGE)
Step 1	Right Mouse click on your desktop where there are no icons.  You should get a list of options appear.  Left click on PROPERTIES.
Step 2	If you performed step 1 correctly, you should have a window called DISPLAY PROPERTIES.  If you are here, click on the tab at the top called Screen Saver. You have to pick a screen saver from the list on the left.  You also have to enable the check box "On resume, password protect".  What this does is it allows the screen save to go back to the Windows logon screen and ask the person at the PC to put in a password.  If you do not put a check in the box, your PC will be unprotected.
Step 3	You have to enable this feature for all users of the PC.  Unfortunately, you have to logon as each individual person and perform steps 1 & 2. To log off and log back on as somebody else, use the START BUTTON and click LOG OFF.  It may ask you to LOG OFF or SWITCH USERS.  Either is acceptable.  You will be taken back to the Windows Logon screen and be asked for a password of the user account you click on.

This concludes this "tutorial"