Password Protect all of Office 2007

[Budget Programmer]

Hello,
I have Office 2007 (Specifically, Outlook 2007) installed on XP. It's on a
general-use laptop, so I'd like to password-protect Outlook as it starts up.
Outlook has one e-mail account: my Hotmail account (HTTP), so it's not tied
to a corporate Exchange server.

I've seen posts of hot to password protect the data file, but then the
personal folders are exposed. Also, the password protection of the PST file
gave me other problems.

Isn't there a way that I can password protect Outlook (with only a Hotmail
account configured) so that I have to input a password even prior to Outlook
showing me folder names, etc.? Seems like a simple thing. I'm probably
missing something.
Many Thanks.

 

[DL]

Not really;
The data file "is" the Personal Folders password protecting the Personal
Folders prevents them opening

 

[Budget Programmer]

I'm probably not making myself clear. As I see it, there are two major
groupings of folders:

The Personal folders (you might call these "archive" folders, since they
don't appear on the Hotmail server),

and the E-Mail folders (e.g. (e-mail address removed)).

The user I'm helping doesn't want anyone else seing either of these folder
groupings. I suppose I could add a password to both folder groupings, but
the passwords already gave me trouble (couldn't delete e-mails from within
Outlook), and the user is thinking of adding a second hotmail account,
giving three data files to password protect. This would be cumbersome to
maintain as the user bounces from one folder type to the other.

Isn't there a way that the Outlook application, immediately after it's
executed, would challenge the user for a password? That way there'd be one
password to maintain for all the user's e-mail needs. I hope I've clarified
my question. Thanks for your hlep.

 

[DL]

There maybe third party win tools that can password protect an exe /
application, but not within Outlook
Depending on your version of win there maybe some options to hide an
application folder to all but certain win users - post on this aspect to the
group that supports your o/s