A Windows password script
I am looking for a Windows password script. What I would like it to do is the following:

1.) I right click a folder &/or file and it has the option to "attach a password" in the context menu. (created by the script.)

2.) After attaching the password to the folder &/or file, it will prompt for the password when trying to open the folder &/or file & or a file inside the protected folder.

3.) Last it will need to do is extend these protection settings so if it's copied to external media, hard drives, or other computers, it will still prompt.
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OK, some important notes:

- I don't want a programs that make you move the file/folder into a "vault or locker".

- I would like to attach a password to the file/folder with no further manipulation to the file/folder.

-"Winrar" is the closest thing to my longest most simple journey but it moves the file into a password protected archive. This would not be so bad if it DIDNT take forever to open just to populate (when you have multiple files in the archive.) This is very time consuming when you just want to open ONE file/folder.
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This is so simple yet I have failed to know end trying to find this. The mac has this built in I believe, but I have Windows. Joy for Windows .Thatd be a handy tool!
The only thing i can think of is winrar or other compression tools but..
that puts the folder into a 'locker' how you put it :/
Handy indeed 

Mac has it built in and 7 versions of windows pass by without it.

Sad sad..I'm thinking if your lucky you could find a third party program that changes the (architecture?) of a windows folder and shows a new tab in the properties window to apply a password to the folder like you wanted but still keeping it a normal functioning folder.
The only thing i'm thinking is how hard it would be to put it on an external or something and still have the feature enabled :/

There is most LIKELY a code/script somewhere that does this.
On some hardout illegal site haha    Why illegal? It is to protect our information.

I know there is hope for a smarty pants to come onto this thread and paste a script for all of us.

Well...
True.

There's a bit of talk on forums about 'Microsoft Private Folder'
Try looking that up.
It seems to do the job but you need to be a genuine microsoft user. Quote from: bigbutt100 on March 30, 2010, 02:10:45 PM

Handy indeed 

Mac has it built in and 7 versions of windows pass by without it.

Sad sad..

Anyways; the Direct analog to the mac "password protected folder" is a encrypted Zip file.

Of course it would be great if instead of a zip file, it was a password protected 'folder' instead..

Is this possible? 
Now I wanna know haha.
It'll probably involve editing the registry..

As far as windows is concerned, with the default install and the "Compressed Folder" shell extension, a ZIP file IS a folder.

Secondly I doubt registry edits would persist across multiple machines in a external drive as the Original request wanted.

2: Mac OS X has absolutely NOTHING like what you describe built in. I suspect you're confusing OS X's sudo prompt for something it's not.

What you want SOUNDS simple, until you come across someone with a little actual programming experience, who will tell you this would require a pretty significant reworking of some major Windows components.

You'd need to update the filesystem to support a specific kind of ACL,

then work the file management APIs to support those as well.

Then you have to wrap all that into a pretty GUI. And even then, any external devices would have to use the same filesystem, or you'd have to create a failsafe in the file manager APIs so that it will refuse to copy a file from one filesystem to another, which would greatly upset people who wouldn't be able to figure out why they can't copy some file or directory.