How Can I Keep My Roomate Off My Computer?

Rollofthedice

Rollofthedice

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The login screen comes up every time the computer boots and he doesn't have an account on my computer, so how is he able to bypass the login screen. I know he is because I can see the documents he is opening in the Recent Documents section.

I don't want him to get on because he uses it for surfing for online porn and he prints stuff wasting my ink. So I've been thinking of getting a lock for my room, but I was hoping there was a less expensive way to keep him off.

And I don't really want to confront him about this because I don't want to lose my temper and possibly fight him over this. This really pisses me off that he's doing this.
 
SFR

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Rollofthedice said:
The login screen comes up every time the computer boots and he doesn't have an account on my computer, so how is he able to bypass the login screen. I know he is because I can see the documents he is opening in the Recent Documents section.

I don't want him to get on because he uses it for surfing for online porn and he prints stuff wasting my ink. So I've been thinking of getting a lock for my room, but I was hoping there was a less expensive way to keep him off.

And I don't really want to confront him about this because I don't want to lose my temper and possibly fight him over this. This really pisses me off that he's doing this.
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Do you have a guest account enabled? If so, disable it. (Control Panel > User Accounts)
 
lee101

lee101

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Also maybe he is getting on through the administrator's account, if you press ctrl-alt-delete twice at the logon screen then you can type Administrator in as the user, and if there is no password set then it will let him logon
 
Rollofthedice

Rollofthedice

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Guest account was already off and I just changed my password in case he somehow figured it out. So it could be the safe mode then?
 
ADE

ADE

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tell him to get his own computer. :p lock him out, don't let him in unless he sings a document to never use your computer therefore by law not allowing him to use it and if he does go to judge Judy. :p
 
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ducis

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fake that a massive virus is on your computer (via remote login) and get him to run screaming to you saying all the stuff hes done and he'll never do it Again
 
magicman

magicman

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Why don't you simply set a BIOS password? Then he won't be able to get in, short of physically resetting the CMOS jumper switch on the motherboard itself. It'd prompt for the password before Windows even gives you the option of safe mode, let alone the logon screen.
 
tlarkin

tlarkin

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get a new roomate or get your own place. Living alone is so awesome, and you'll never want roomates again
 
ADE

ADE

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give him his own account so he doesn't mess up yours? And tell him to save everything on an external HDD? I duno...
 
Rollofthedice

Rollofthedice

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The BIOS password sounds good. How do I do that? I only have limited computer knowledge. And thanks for the replies, some had me laughing.
 
leet6thgrader

leet6thgrader

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Now that I think about it.. Your room mate probably ****ed with your computer and thats why it's messed up in your other thread.
 
Itanda

Itanda

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Dude set up a video camra in your room looking at your computer then catch him looking at porn then say you wanna watch a movie with him and play the camera footage and see what he says :p
 
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Balask

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to set a BIOS password to hitting the ESC when its first booting up in the first menu, there should be a set BIOS password option.

I would recommend changing the admin password as well though; when booting keep pressing F8 until you get into windows start-up options, then select safe mode and login to the administrator account and create a password for that account.

Also I like your idea about changing your password. The only other way I can think of him accessing your computer is through a LANMAN password cracker, my best opinion for this is choosing a password which isn't a normal word and includes at least one weird character. If its 8 letters long it will take much longer than your away from your password to crack.
 
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