Password protect iTunes application to prevent changes?

Hi all,
I am looking to increase my ITUNES security on my home PC to prevent changes in ITUNES match or my music being removed from icloud by mistake by others when they use this PC or it is stolen etc.
I.E when i open the itunes application, it will prompts/ask me for a password before proceeding further.
I have home sharing enabled and i dont want to interfer or restrict this, however sometimes on my laptop other access itunes and on occassions have caused music in the cloud to be deleted! Doesnt help when i have disposed of the original cd's and its not avaiable via the itunes store.
Any ideas/comments would be grealty appreciated to help me protect?
I did go to edit/prefercnes and ticked the "require password" button in home sharing, but affects home sharing only, does not prompt me for password on my PC.
Cheers Folks
Simon.

You can backup your library right now. You can send the password protection idea to iTunes Feedback, but I doubt it would ever be implemented.
Don't dispose of your original CDs. If you sell or give them away then you should also delete the tracks that you ripped from them.
tt2

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