No password needed to access email? How do I become more secure?

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New to Microsoft Outlook. I'm a previous Outlook Express user, and was able
to manage my identities, thus providing more secruity in "others" reading my
emails. Is this not an option in Micro Oulook? I was planning to switch
over after my soon to be ex, rebooted Windows while I was out of town and
basically deleted everything. No back up disk. Starting all over :(
 
You could put a password on your PST file so that a password would be needed
to open it. In Outlook, right click on the root of your folder tree, choose
Properties > Advanced > Change Password
 
dbay said:
New to Microsoft Outlook. I'm a previous Outlook Express user, and
was able to manage my identities, thus providing more secruity in
"others" reading my emails. Is this not an option in Micro Oulook?
I was planning to switch over after my soon to be ex, rebooted
Windows while I was out of town and basically deleted everything. No
back up disk. Starting all over :(
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Mr. Averello suggested a password-protected PST but this doesn't help in the
Windows File System arena. Even if you password-protect your PST, if you do
not use separate Windows accounts for people, nothing would prevent a
malicious person from simply deleting the entire PST, thereby wiping out
everything in your Outlook data store. Moreover, if the malicious person
has physical access to your PC and a Windows installation disk, s/he can
simply boot from the CD and wipe out the entire operating system.

In a shared computer environment with Windows as the O/S, the most secure
arrangement is to Safe Mode password-protect the built-in Administrator
account, have one other password-protected Administrator account (with a
separate password) and have all other accounts be limited accounts. Couple
that with the Windows installation CD under lock-and-key and you're about as
safe as you can be while still allowing physical access to the computer.
 
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