Vista - Password protecting

I am going on holiday and am having my house sat.
I trust the person sitting my house and she will use my PC.
However, I would like to password protect a few folders with banking info.
How can I do this?
I have Vista Premium.
Thanks all

Cos

You can't do this natively. The smart thing to do is to
set-up a "guest account" for your "house sitter".

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows Vista Enthusiast

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"Cosmo" <jhjk@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:uA8gB6AAJHA.5096@xxxxxx
I am going on holiday and am having my house sat.
I trust the person sitting my house and she will use my PC.
However, I would like to password protect a few folders with banking info.
How can I do this?
I have Vista Premium.
Thanks all

Cos

"Cosmo" <jhjk@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uA8gB6AAJHA.5096@xxxxxx1) You give the person a Standard user account by adding a new user-id and
PSW to the system.

2) You use Explore and you go to the folder and right-click it and go to
Properties and select the Security Tab.

If you don't see the Security Tab, then follow the information in the link
that talks about it.

<http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/2464a180-e5dc-45d1-a2b8-3c8a2b571e9d1033.mspx>

If you don't see the new account listed on the folder, then the person will
not have access to the folder or files in the folder, period.

So login in as that User and see if you can access the folders and files in
the folders as that person's user-id that you have set-up.

"Cosmo" <jhjk@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uA8gB6AAJHA.5096@xxxxxx

If it were me, no matter how much I trusted the person I would not trust her
not to accidentally screw something up, get the computer infected with
malware, etc. I wouldn't dream of letting someone else use my computer while
I was away.

But if you insist, what I recommend is that you copy those folders to a
thumb drive, then delete them from the computer entirely. Lock up the thumb
drive, then restore from it after you return home.

Cosmo wrote:http://www.pgp.com/solutions/homeoffice.html