Re: How do I lock a program?



"Alisa" <Alisa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I recently installed Kodak Easy Share software on my user account on our
family computer. I just found out that the program is accessible from the
"
Guest". I don't want any or everyone to be able to view my photos. Is
there a
way I can make the program accessible only to my XP user account?

Any help would be greatly appreciate.

Thanks

Locking EasyShare won't prevent other accounts from viewing your photos,
since it isn't required to view them.

The photos are probably jpeg images, so can be viewed with many apps
including Internet Explorer. All that's needed is access to the folder.

What you need to do is restrict permissions to the *folders* where you are
storing the photos. Set the folders to private, and then only those
logged into your account can view them... unless they really want to.

If you are using XP Pro, you can also encrypt the folders, BUT you MUST be
aware of the implications of this and complete the task. It's very easy to
have an apparently minor thing go wrong with XP, which causes a chain of
events that results in encrypted data being permanently unavailable to
anyone, ever. You have to back up the account certificates, verify them,
and store the backups in a safe place. That last part is not required, and
that lack of requirement has caused a lot of grief.

HTH
-pk


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