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Answer» Hey guys I was just curious to know if there was a way to make a folder on your harddrive password protected. For example I have a folder on my desktop with a bunch of sub folders I wanted to password protect the main folder. I am not even sure if there is a way of doing this or not. I really dont want to make windows login accounts I dont like those. Any help would be great or if there is 3rd party SOFTWARE that can do this task? Thanks Sorry was on the way out the door when I posted this message. I am on XP home. I right clicked the folder and was looking around the properties of it but didnt see much of anything that answered my question. [HIGHLIGHT]It is kind of strange that microsoft hasnt implmented this feature into windows yet[/highlight]. It is just another way that users would lock themselves out of their own data. We get an awful lot of "I forgot my password" posts here. This software seems to have very good reviews. I might try it out myself if I ever have the need. http://www.snapfiles.com/get/folderlock.htmlWe've had several people here who got separated permanently from their data with Folderlock. I don't remember if that was from the software or a pebcak however.Probably pebcak, it's easy to forget passwords. If I felt the need to encrypt things and password-protect folder, which I don't, I'd use 7-Zip. And it'd take up less space. Which isn't important even slightly. Quote Chortles.Nice pics lol. Yeah well folder lock is a big piece of crap. I downloaded it shortly after I posted this thread and I lost a couple important files with it. The program is definate garbage.How did you lose them? Not another pesky pebcak I hope?I pretty much had folder lock select some html files I made to be in the password protected area so to say and when I went to view them they were missing. It wasnt a huge deal I still had them stored on my ftp but I scraped that program after I saw that. I have been playing with my winzip for a little bit however and I see how it lets you encrypt the idividual files within the actual zip folder. I really just wanted to have a password prompt come up when you try to get into the main zip folder not for each individual file. Do you know if this is possible?I'm reasonably sure there is a way, but I'm not sure because I use 7-Zip. Have you checked the help files? It might tell you there.why not go for total encryption and use TruCrypt? you can even make a keyfile and not have to have a password, although a keyfile is totaly irreplaceable. you could still put it on a flash drive or something. |
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