You can do it al in Vista. It is a very secure system. It will resist your
attempts to work on it with no password.

You can download Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (free), beta2 for
Vista, from MS website and run it periodically. It will give you a complete
analysis of your potential vulnerabilities in a form of a nice report easily
interpretable.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

<techman41973@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I am purchasing a new desktop with Windows Vista. I will be using the
> Bitlocker feature to secure my data. However that still leaves open
> the chance someone could grab data with a USB key when the computer is
> on when I am away. When I am away from the computer I want to be able
> to log in remotely with services like Gotomypc to access my data and
> applications and have the desktop continue to record podcasts from the
> internet using a tool called Replay AV and run other background
> applications. However when I am away, I want to be able to also
> prevent anyone from accessing the desktop via the keyboard (simply
> hiding the keyboard in a safe place isnt going to cut it). Ideally if
> someone tried to access the computer from the keyboard they would be
> prompted for a password. Is this possible with Windows Vista?
> Basically I want to lock out physical users via the keyboard but still
> allow the computer to continue to run background applications and
> remain accessable from the internet for remote access. Thanks