Separate Windows Accounts are Not Enough ? guess you don't want other people who have access to your computer — legitimate access, of course, because they're family, friends and colleagues, for instance — to have access to the emails it holds as well.
If this is true you have, of course, set up a distinct Windows account for each user so that everybody can have their own wallpaper, and so that emails and documents are kept separate. This is very well and good, but it is not enough to protect your emails.
Keep Your Email Private in Windows
Steps to keep your emails even as files on the disk private from the eyes of other users:
Steps to keep your emails even as files on the disk private from the eyes of other users:
- Locate the folder in which your email program keeps mail.
- Click on it with the right mouse button in Windows Explorer.
- Select Sharing and Security... from the menu.
- Go to the Sharing tab.
- Make sure Make this folder private is checked under Local sharing and security.
If this option is grayed out, see below for options.
- Click OK.
This prevents other users from all access to the folder. You mail is safe as long as nobody can log on to your Windows account.These steps can be followed for IncrediMail installed in Windows XP, 2000, 98 etc
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