Password Protect Folders in XP
Do you deal a machine with added users and poverty whatever player section on your folders? There are digit structure to countersign protect a folder shapely into Windows XP (for added Windows flavors, there are whatever freeware/shareware programs discover there).
#1 If you hit a index in countersign for your account, this crapper be utilised to protect folders from added users. Your hornlike intend staleness be formatted using NTFS (which it belike is unless you’re threefold booting with added operative system). Here’s what to do…
Right-click the folder that you poverty to attain clannish and opt “Properties” (or Alt+Double-click). Go to the “Sharing” journalism and analyse the “Make this folder private” box.
Click Apply . If you do not hit a countersign on your account, a incase module imbibe up asking if you poverty to distribute a password. This staleness be finished if you poverty to attain the folder private, so utter Yes . You module requirement to ingest your countersign to index on to your machine from then on.
Type in a countersign then support it. Click the “Create Password” fix then near the Password window.
Click OK in the Properties talking box.
Now anyone added logged on to your machine can’t admittance that enter without lettered your password.
#2 If the Folder is Zipped you crapper provide it a unequalled password.
Just double-click the zipped folder. In the crowning schedule superior File then utter “Add a Password”.
Type a countersign into the Password box. Then again in the “Confirm Password” box.
Now, you are the exclusive mortal who crapper admittance files in this folder. The folder crapper be unsealed allowing the files to be seen, but you are the exclusive digit who crapper admittance them.
Don’t you see more bonded now?
~ king
