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How can I hide an icon from others, and having to use a password to access it?

I have removed the icons from the desktop so people can't access them from the desktop, but my nephew is 9 and knows his way around a computer pretty well and he knows to go to start to look for the program.What I want is to know how to hide this so others cant access this. If it is through parental controls or others ways that require a password to access the program. The easy thing to do is just change the password to prevent them from accessing the desktop all together, BUT I allow others on my computer when they ask, but I just need a way to block a few things from everyone else who uses it.Computer wizzes, dont be shy!

Answer:

Enjoy and tell all your friends so that they can enjoy them too!
Well, it depends on a few factors - like the type of light. Natural sunlight and incandescent globes have a lot of red-spectrum light in them so a red surface will tend to reflect more of the light with more red in it than a blue one and so the blue object would absorb more energy and get hotter. A light source with a lot of blue in it would work the other way. In practice though, the differences are probably marginal and have less effect than the shades of the colours - a lighter blue will probably reflect more energy than a dark red irrespective of light source. Even then, pretty trivial in practice I'd suggest. If you're concerned about it, yes, silver would be more reflective and yes, a metal case will both heat up and cool down faster than a plastic one. The heat generated by the machine is unlikely to be different because it will be down in the infra-red and unaffected by visible spectrum colour.

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