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help protect my mac from my older bros.
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ok so new years eve my father took me to the apple store as a suprise to a good report card and baught me a macbook, works great and everything. But when im at highschool and my brothers sleep in because they have school/work later they get off there lame pc laptops/desktops to go on MY new mac. i shut it down before i go to school and when i log in i would like to enter my password to acsess my computer so when i start it up it dosnt go right on to my name. any help would be great.
thanks.
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white macbook, 2ghz, 1gb of ram, 80gb hd.
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Baninated
Join Date: Dec 2006
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Click on preferences, users, then set your password. The end.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Union County, NJ
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Don't forget System Preferences - Security - require password
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System Preferences - Users - Login Options - Turn "Automatically Log In" OFF
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yeah thanks i set my pw but the automatic log in is what i need to change..
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Feb 2003
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Apparently your good grades weren't in English.
sorry, couldn't help it.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
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Originally Posted by mdc
Apparently your good grades weren't in English.
sorry, couldn't help it.
Or in typing
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lol not to much of a good speller
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white macbook, 2ghz, 1gb of ram, 80gb hd.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Union County, NJ
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Did you read what I wrote? ^^
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Smallish town in Ohio
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Originally Posted by starman
Did you read what I wrote? ^^
Like a typical n00b he probably just glosses over everything and keeps demanding more help 
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Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Land of the Easily Amused
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while you're playing around with preferences, please make your forum signature smaller.
200 pixels wide by 50 pixels tall is the limit. thanks.
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