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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Are you scared to connect your laptops with public network/WiFi connections?

You might be scared to connect your laptops with public networks/WiFi connections because, other people can access or misuse your personal data, if you don't do necessary settings to block the network access to your documents, personal data through the unknown networks.

IT experts know how to do those settings so no need to worry but, non IT expert like beginner level people, need to worry because, they need to learn to do those settings.

Are you really need to learn and do those settings?
Not really, because there is a trick to do the same level settings without even doing those settings. But, it is better if you learn those settings. It may help you in future.


following trick helps you to protect your personal data/documents when you are connected to a public networks/WiFi connection.

What you have to do is, you need to create a user account with limited permission or you just need to turn on the "Guest" account. At the same time you have to give a strong password for your Administration privileges having accounts and make them private from other accounts(automatically,it become private accounts when you give the password. Sometime it asks you to do). That's it. you are done.

Whenever you go to a public place and willing to use the public network connection/WiFi connection, you simply log in to the guest or created limited user accounts. So they will not get access to your personal data through network. If you are using the latest version of windows operating system, then you need to select "public" network, when it ask you to select the network when it is connected to a new network for fist time.
so, it will enable some basic level securities too.

That's it, you know now, how to connect your laptop to a public network or WiFi connections without doing any security settings.  Please share this trick with your friends and let them know.