I wanna keep my nosy family from my computer...how should I do that?

I'm not exactly super close with any of my family members in my house and I know they sometimes snoop around in my room. I haven't had a desktop computer in ages and I'm planning on getting one soon. Is there an easy way to keep them from turning on my computer and or see what's on there? Even with a password at the startup screen or whatever they could google how to bypass that so I need a sure way to stop them from accessing my future computer.

Passwords and learning how to cover your tracks. And a portable hard drive dosen't hurt.

You could unplug the hdd from your mobo every time you leave your room. Make your folders hidden. Add passwords on every folder. Hide important things deep in your folders.FrostyPhantasm

Bring your computer's power cord with you everywhere you go. Simple.silentexistence

[QUOTE="FrostyPhantasm"]You could unplug the hdd from your mobo every time you leave your room. Make your folders hidden. Add passwords on every folder. Hide important things deep in your folders.SolidSnake2011-

hide your stuff in windows\system32..

I'm not exactly super close with any of my family members in my house and I know they sometimes snoop around in my room. I haven't had a desktop computer in ages and I'm planning on getting one soon. Is there an easy way to keep them from turning on my computer and or see what's on there? Even with a password at the startup screen or whatever they could google how to bypass that so I need a sure way to stop them from accessing my future computer.

SolidSnake2011-

Solid snake by name solid snake by nature it would seem :)

A windows password would do, if they are good enough to hack that then they can get around whatever security you put in place.

[QUOTE="FrostyPhantasm"]You could unplug the hdd from your mobo every time you leave your room. Make your folders hidden. Add passwords on every folder. Hide important things deep in your folders.SolidSnake2011-

It's true that they could learn how to find hidden folders.....but they first have to LOCATE the hidden folder, right? You could always lock away a winrar archive somewhere...

TC family members are ninjas.

I want to play games on the highest setting and if I buy a gaming laptop it'd cost a small fortune and I'd have to buy a new one like every 2 yrsSolidSnake2011-

What exactly are you so desperate to hide?

Whatcha so worried about hiding TC? :P

Anyways just use something like a strong password, file encryption, lock the file, or simply use the hidden folders option

If your family members are so nosy that they'll actually google how to break a password protection, then.... no comment really.

lol I never thought someone would have this type of problem. Where there family is going to go so far as to try to hack your password and find out whats on your computer. That's pretty funny. I'm sure you'll figure something out. Theres gotta be ways to do this.

hide your stuff in windows\system32..

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becareful, be sure you that your folder name is not related to anything in system32 if you dont want to delete by accident or your OS will crash!:o

Put the very important files on a usb drive and hide it in your pillow.FrostyPhantasm

Try manning up and not giving a crap about what your family think about your scat porn or whatever.

What is it you're hiding TC? You can tell us.

Feature a BDSM act as your wallpaper... That'll teach them from snooping all over your desktop

alright i have a good solution for you tc and unless your family is super tech savy then theyll never be able to figure this way out, when you get your desktop buy a secondary external usb hard drive, install windows on both hard drives and when your not home change the boot order of the hard drives for your computer so that it boots from the internal hard drive instead of from the first and when you want to use it plug in your usb hard drive and change the boot order so that it boots from the external hard drive, dont worry about messing up the external hard drive, they are meant to be plugged in and unplugged multiple times, problem solved

To be totally secure you would need your own network since they could just Google how to use Wireshark and watch all your Internet traffic :roll:spazzx625

1. a password.

2. deleting history and cookies and clearing cache on your computer.

3. a flash drive to keep all your stuff on.

What the hell man, why do you even need to ask *facepalm*

If your family is that terrible that they're willing to do whatever to bypass the lock, then it might be easier to just like, get a new family or move out or get emancipated. Jeez, you make them sound like jerks who can't stand privacy.

Put something disgusting on your computer so they never want to see it again.

Unless ofcourse you are trying to hide that stuff?

Operant conditioning. Attach a small electrical shocker to your doorknob and hook it up to a switch so you can turn it on when you leave.

You could stop downloading porn.

You could stop downloading porn.

DerpyMcDerp

We need serious suggestions here.

use winrar for all your files and put passwords on them. You can also make all your files hidden. Make it so your browser deletes all info when you close it.