balmersmith
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due to issues that i'm not gonna get into, my computer has one functioning user account which is me : the administrator. i have certain files and folders on my computer that are personal but five other people use my computer and i'm tired of hearing my brother say "look at this document I found on your computer! it's a list of what you're getting us all for christmas!" (because i make lists for everything) or my sister plugging in her MP3 player and saying "I found a weird song on your computer, so I put it on my MP3!" (when it is not appropriate for her age) or, even better, my dad says "your recycle bin was full so emptied it" after i said for no one to empty it cuz i didn't want the stuff deleted - it was in there becasue i was experimenting with something and was going to restore them later! Or even my mom saying "i found a video you'd made in the zune program and the title was not apropriate so i deleted it" if she'd watched the video it would have been clear that out of context the title was wierd but it was meant as a joke! Argh! Anyone know how i can password protect these things individually (i already have a password for the user account as a whole, but that's no good in this situation)? and please no smart aleck ideas like 'buy them all their own computer' or 'tell them not to delete stuff' (duh - that's the first thing i did) or 'make them their own user accounts' (my vista