Yes, see help and look up "user accounts."
Are you using Windows XP Home or Pro? The level of options
is greater and perhaps easier with Pro, but even Home has
secure user accounts.
You need to create a user account for yourself and assign
that account a secure password that your son or anybody else
is not likely to guess, something with various character,
lower and capital case and numbers, something you will
remember because you can't write it down anywhere your son
can find.
If he needs to use the computer, he can have a limited user
account, but that account will not have any access to your
files, you can limited the which programs can be used.
You can also set a password in the BIOS so the computer
won't boot without a password just to load Windows.
If your unmanaged child is computer savvy and has any tools
or software, he will be able to get around most of your
protection, but it will make it safer. It would be a good
idea to get a flash memory drive of some sort so you can
backup your data every time. You can use one of those thumb
drives or a card reader and one or more memory cards.
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| I use my computer to do business with and I have a pesky
son at home who knows how to turn on my computer. The
problem is, every time I'm away from the computer, he plays
around with the icons, clicking random things, and that has
caused him to delete important documents.
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| Is there anyway that I can create some kind of password to
keep my son from accessing the desktop? Or can I somehow
lock the icons on my computer to keep him from clicking on
them accessing different things on the computer?
