Password protecting access to Windows user accounts is now the norm, and a variety of other devices – mobiles and tablets, for example – offer other security features such as PIN protection and facial recognition unlocking. Windows 8 enables you to protect your account with a picture password; but is it a good move?
What this means is that you are able to draw shapes, tap or click points, and generally gesture in a particular pattern over an image you have chosen. It’s a feature that has really been designed with touchscreen devices in mind, but there is nothing to stop you from using it with a mouse on a standard PC.
The attraction of a picture password is obvious. To start with, it is a slightly more ‘fun’ way of gaining access to your account and for anyone who is a slower typist, it may well prove to be a faster means of logging in.
But is the feature all that it’s cracked up to be?
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by Mark Wilson via How-To Geek
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