Re: How to password protect just one folder

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From: Katy (fairytale_4_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/20/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 21:30:23 -0500

Thank you all for your feedback. I have tried Winzipping the file and it's
fine for the initial zip. I can add to the zip also without actually
unzipping it. But if I wanted to make sure what I added actually got into
the zip file, I would like to open it to view and make sure. Unzipping
creates another folder in the Unzipped file on the C: drive which I would
need to delete and then delete the recycle bin. It was more work than I
cared to go through for each time I added something to that zipped and
password protected folder. I know to do this but another user wants to also
password protect a folder and is not into all the steps it takes with
WinZip.

I am the only user on my PC so I don't use a windows password tho I am
administrator. I have heard enough about trojans and viruses to be fearful
of access to some things on my computer. I don't let others on my machine
but what if I gave remote control to a PC tech, that is another reason why I
want to password protect this folder.

It just seems that it should be so easy to do that, just right click any
folder and create password. Magic folders would cost money so I will leave
that for a last resort; thank you for showing me that site Rick. Just
thought XP (yes I have Pro) would have an easy right click option if I
enabled it somewhere else. I don't know about encryption and my friend is
VERY new to computers.

Thanks again for all your help ...... ideally we'd like a right click option
to a folder of our choice to password protect it but maybe it's just not
possible.

katy

<robin@despammed.com> wrote in message
news:pe1880pksoi5tams4sq91tqn1jq7dpiuct@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 19:56:20 -0500, "Katy" <fairytale_4@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Is there anyway to password protect just one folder or file in XP? I've
> >searched a little here and quite a bit in XP help and couldn't find how
to
> >do this without password protecting a whole screensaver. Does XP have a
way
> >to do this without encompassing the whole computer?
> >
> >TIA for any help,
> >katy
> >
> Just a suggestion but why not zip the folder with WinZip? It has a
> passwording feature.
>
> Robin

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