How to put a password on Morrowind

[MajKrAzAm]

Hi there,

 

 

Sorry if this is in the should be in Off topic or somewhere else.

 

I need to put a password on Morrowind so people have to enter to play or unistall it because my annoying brother :ranting: keeps on going on my save game and killing important NPC's than saving,he just can't be bothered to start a new game.Also he wants to unistall Morrowind. :(

 

Any help appreciated.

thanks

MajKrAzAm

[Xionith]

Well, find every morrowind link, on your PC, make a new folder, put all of the morrowind links in there, then left click on the folder, do properties, then check the hidden tab, click advanced, and click the encrypt contents button. Exit that menu, and open up the folder, at the top of the window, there is a button thing called tools, bring down the menu for that and click folder options. Then click the tab labed view, and check of the little button that says Do not show hidden files or folders. This will make that folder invisible. (every time you want to play you have to uncheck the make hidden files invisible... thing. Otherwise just hide all of the morrowind links, and use the CD to bring up the play menu. When ur done hide the CD. :lol:

 

Also, I know there is a way to put passwords on documents (word etc.) but I dont think you can in morrowind. Unless maybe you can play morrowind in a window and not fullscreen... But I hope my first part helped. ;)

[cmac]

Or you can just give him a separate accoount, make it a non-administer one, and keep your files safe. WHile Xionith's idea does work, you must relocate the files every time you want to play Morrowind. Programs cannot be uninstalled from a Limited Account.

[Marxist ßastard]

Well, we don't know what OS he's using, so it's best to suggest an external application. I know that there are several programs that can create a heavily encrypted file that can be mounted in a way so that the OS recognizes it as a removable storage device, such as a USB Zip drive. Install one of those applications and move Morrowind.esm to the drive created. Unmount it and, if you're running 2000 / XP, secure the application itself using the folder encryption tool that is built into the OS (Properties -> Advanced on the folder).

 

Why not just put Morrowind.exe under encryption? Well, if your brother is teh clevar, he'll know that there are hacked versions of the executable floating around that he can download at will to replace the application. However, I doubt that he'll be any the wiser that you have such a security application installed, much less that one of the files critical to Morrowind's execution is hidden within one of its heavily encrypted files.

 

If you want to remove Morrowind from the Uninstall list, get X-Setup and look for the place where one can screw around with the registry keys constrolling that list. If you're man enough, use regedit.