RE: Encrypting a folder and all its contents.

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Frank, check out TrueCrypt.
http://www.truecrypt.org/

Sounds more up your alley. It's *slightly* more complicated than what you're
asking for, but it should get the job done. Basically it creates a file of a
user-defined size, say 100MB; then mounts it as a drive when you type your
password. The file itself is encrypted to a user-specified level. So when you
shut down the computer or unmount the drive, it goes back to being a 100MB
encrypted file. Then you're only limited by the complexity of the password
you choose.

I use it for my financial and other personal documents.

Regards,

Jim

"Frank Martin" wrote:

I cannot get any results from the WindowsXP pro help section
on how to encrypt files and folders.

What I want is:

A particular folder that I can encrypt, and this will
automatically encrypt all files put into it. Then to open
the folder to read the files a password would be required.

Please help, Frank



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