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passwording a folder on XP pro?

okay i wanna password one folder that i use on XP pro, how do i do it?

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Right click on the folder, choose proporties or whatever and it will probably be in there somewhere.

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Life is the persuit of knowledge.

Perhaps this could be of some use.

http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,110663,00.asp

Good luck!

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- emily

okay thanks
that link was a bit cruddy cos it didnt work for me :mad:
im sure it will for others
thanks anyway emily
could someone else please direct me to the solution im looking for?

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That article was fairly long, um i just use winzip for password protect stuff, but i know its still not the most efficient way of storing it however its not to bad and easy to do.

1. open up windows explorer
2. go to tools/folder options
3. this pops up the folder options window
4. go to the view tab
5. go to the advance settings scroll box and scroll to the bottom where it says: "Use simple file sharing (Recomended) uncheck this box, and then hit apply and then ok and then you have "classic" file sharing.

go to any file or directory you want to pw protect, right click on it > properties >sharing and you will see you will be able to do it then. hope this helps you out and is a bit more clear.

edit: (added the following):

Or you can find a program which does this. Most are shareware though and you have to run it every time.

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- emily

Cool... learned a new trick today.

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Travis Farrell