Hi I am going on vacation. I wanna secure my PC. Is there any way I can lock down my PC so that nobody can boot up it? Any BIOS level security?
BTW. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate.
Hi I am going on vacation. I wanna secure my PC. Is there any way I can lock down my PC so that nobody can boot up it? Any BIOS level security?
BTW. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate.
The most secure: Take the hard drive out and put it somewhere safe.
Next best: Most BIOSes have security options for requiring passwords to boot up.
Physical access trumps most preventative measures you may put in place on your system, if the attacker knows what they're doing. There's a few options for preventing unauthorized boot-up of your system and access to your data. The following may be performed individually, or all together.
Setup full disk encryption using something like Truecrypt. http://www.truecrypt.org/ With a strong password your data will be very safe from other people. They can destroy it, to prevent loss, make a backup, and store it somewhere else, also encrypted.
If your BIOS supports it you can set a boot password. You can also turn on user account passwords by running control userpasswords2
from the start bar and setting up the accounts appropriately.