How can I stop other people from importing tables and queries from my Access database? I stopped them from importing other stuff such as my forms, reports, etc... by making an mde file but how do I stop them from importing my tables with out using the standard Microsoft Password system?

Manage user rights to tables

The easiest way, if you don't want to get involved with user-level security or password protection, is to hide your objects. Right click a table or query, select properties, check the "Hidden" attribute. To show hidden objects in your db, select Tools --> Options and check the "Hidden Objects" checkbox in the "Show" section. Hidden objects won't appear in the Import or Linking dialogs, though they can still accessed via code. For example, one could still use ADOX or DAO to retrieve a catalog of table schema information that would list your hidden tables as well. But hiding objects provides some modicum of security. To really lock down your data objects though, you'd need to follow peko's suggestion and implement user-level security.

Bob

Thanks Bob and Peko,
I tried hiding my tables and selecting the tools/options and unchecking the hidden objects checkbox and when I tried importing tables that were hidden from a new database I couldn't see those tables. So then I tried going back to the tools/options and rechecking the hidden objects checkbox from the new database and tried to import the tables again and I was able to see them. So the point is while my computer might have the hidden objects unchecked someone else's computer might have hidden objects checked and they will be able to see hidden objects from anyone else database. So I guess I will have to try the user-level security system built into Access. I have been so reluctant to use it because anyone can go buy a password cracker from the internet and break into my database.

Then use exotic password and administrator name (e.g. UserName: chupachabras,Pwd: enD57ad66SDdew5A).
It kick off lot of password crackers (because those working