Hi

I will be a student soon, and I want to make sure that if my computer is stolen, nobody can access my data. The obvious solution is to put a startup key on it. Microsoft suggest the following:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/winxppr...b_efs_zbxr.asp

Is this a good idea? I don't actually know enough about computers to know if this is going to have adverse side-effects or anything.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

CobraDMX