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| Seting a password for files and folders |
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How do I set a password for opening certain files. I was using a friends computer and noticed he can password encrypt files and folders. Right click on a file and Encryption option can be selected. Then a password is put in. Every time that file is accessed the password has to be typed. How do I get that on my computer? I have windows xp pro. |
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Open Help and support and search for Encryption. In Suggested Topics = select Encrypt a file or folder. --=20 Doug Knox, MS-MVP windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart = Display\Security Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Per user Group policy Restrictions for xp home and XP Pro http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. =20 "steve" <steve@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message = news:2853E48E-FB44-412A-A0A6-8A3C12EE45F2@microsoft.com... > How do I set a password for opening certain files. > I was using a friends computer and noticed he can password encrypt = files and=20 > folders. Right click on a file and Encryption option can be selected. = Then a=20 > password is put in. Every time that file is accessed the password has = to be=20 > typed. How do I get that on my computer? I have windows xp pro. |
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"steve" <steve@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2853E48E-FB44-412A-A0A6-8A3C12EE45F2@microsoft.com... > How do I set a password for opening certain files. > I was using a friends computer and noticed he can password encrypt > files and > folders. Right click on a file and Encryption option can be selected. > Then a > password is put in. Every time that file is accessed the password has > to be > typed. How do I get that on my computer? I have windows xp pro. Windows XP doesn't bother with password per file/folder. It uses logins and permissions assigned to them. So define your own account if you already don't have one and use permissions on the folder or file (if the path to it isn't under your user profile which already has permissions to let you see your files but not let others see them unless they are admins). Although Doug mentioned using EFS, you will still not be queried for a password. Your login account in the security database identifies that you have permission to read/write those EFS-protected files so you will not be queried for a password. Other users not included in your EFS certificate will not be allowed to read/write your EFS-protected files. If you use EFS, remember to export the EFS certificate since you'll need it on rebuilding or reinstalling windows XP to read those EFS-protected files. If you want the per-folder password extension that your friend has then ask your friend what software they installed to provide that non-standard feature. Maybe your user is using something like TrueCrypt which uses encrypt volumes (or containers) in which files are stored and which will prompt for a password when trying to access that password-protected container. Only your friend knows what they installed ... maybe. |
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"steve" <steve@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > How do I set a password for opening certain files. Right click > Send To > ZIP compressed folder. Doubleclick the .zip file > File > Add Password. -- d-d |
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steve wrote: > How do I set a password for opening certain files. > I was using a friends computer and noticed he can password encrypt files and > folders. Right click on a file and Encryption option can be selected. Then a > password is put in. Every time that file is accessed the password has to be > typed. How do I get that on my computer? I have windows xp pro. Like WinNT and Win2K before it, WinXP's file security paradigm doesn't rely on, or allow, the cumbersome method of password protection for individual applications, files, or folders. Instead, it uses the superior method of explicitly assigning file/folder permissions to individual users and/or groups. HOW TO Create and Configure user Accounts in windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279783 HOW TO Set, View, Change, or Remove File and Folder Permissions http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q308418 HOW TO Set, View, Change, or Remove Special Permissions for files and Folders http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];Q308419 Of course, if you have WinXP Pro, as your friend apparently does, you can encrypt the desired files/folders. Just make sure that you properly back up and safeguard your encryption certificates and keys. If the your encryption certificates and keys were not backed up before the reinstallation, and the workstation isn't part of a domain (whose Administrator might act as the designated recovery agent), those files are gone, for all practical purposes. Encryption works well and there is no "back door" or hack to access the files. (Wouldn't be much point to EFS if it were easily by-passed.) Best Practices for Encrypting File System http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;223316 -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin |
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