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Offline krypton

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lock drive
« on: November 10, 2015, 08:20:24 AM »
hello

how to lock and protect my drive in my laptop from accessing by any other ppl who using my laptop?
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Re: lock drive
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2015, 12:08:03 PM »
Put a password in the bios as well as in the OS on all user accounts that are present.

If you allow others to use the laptop, make sure they can only use a guest account with limited rights.

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Re: lock drive
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2015, 05:33:03 PM »
any simple way to protect it?

any software for it?
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Re: lock drive
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2015, 05:36:58 PM »
What I told is the simple way.

Software ?
Sure, the OS (Windows).

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Re: lock drive
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2015, 06:06:10 PM »