The windows password is more of a "Please don't use my area and ruin my browsing history" than an actual security option, I thought that was well known?
Full disk encryption is really the only way if you want to keep people out of your stuff!
Windows has always done idiotic things when it comes to password security. Whoever thought it was a good idea to split all passwords longer than 7 letters into multiple passwords of max 7 letters in the original LANMAN system deserves some sort of dunce cap award.
