Click Start, and then click My Computer. Open TweakUI. In the TweakUI window, select Explorer 3. Share Share Tweet Email. Related Topics Answers. MakeUseOf Articles Published. Give me the solution so that I can access all the websites on the internet including the restricted ones.
Thanks and Regards — Masood Ahmad —. Is there a way I can remedy this? Please instruct me how to create a password to protect folders i am using windows XP incuding winRAR zip. Why is it that the majority of people leaving comments are illiterate?
If you expect someone to take the time to help you on a problem, take the extra ten seconds to look over what you wrote so it does not sound like my daughter in kindergarten is asking for help. Great Tip! I like program MyFolder. It allows to password-protect and hide any folder on PC. Using XP. I want to password protect an external disk drive. In a previous post, I wrote about how you can hide a folder in Windows XP using a rudimentary built-in feature.
In order to view the data, you have to run another script to morph it back. Anyone who clicks on the folder will be brought to the Control Panel and simply think it is a shortcut. The other neat thing about this little trick is that any of the files or folders inside the hidden folder will not show up when you perform a search in Explorer. Note: Before you try this on some really important sensitive data, you should make sure you create a test folder with some fake test data to ensure you get it working properly.
Of course, keeping the key. Most people will be probably look at the folder and simply ignore it since it has the control panel icon and it links directly there. I want to add a password so that nobody can open the file without knowing the password.
I tried the Sharing and Security option, but there was no place to enter a password. There must be a way It's too bad there is no obvious method to add a password to a file on a Windows XP system.
But there are several ways to get the job done, with varying levels of inconvenience. Let's look at a few ways to do password protection:. If you have Microsoft Office, you can protect your documents with a password. To do so, first open the document. In Office , click the Office button, move the cursor down to Prepare , then click Encrypt Document. Now enter a password in the dialog box and press OK.
Re-enter the password and press OK again. The next time you try to open the document, you will be prompted for this password. So what if you don't have MS Office, or you want to protect something that's not an Office document? There are hidden files in Windows, but anyone with a mouse and a few brain cells to rub together can easily find hidden files. To begin, open Windows Explorer and navigate to the file you want to protect.
Right-click on the file, select Send To , then select Compressed zipped Folder. A new folder will be created, with an icon showing a zipper on a file. Double-click to open the zipped folder, click File , then Add a Password. Enter the password twice and press OK. You're done, except that you now have the original file, and the zipped file with password.
So delete the original file. From now on, when you open the zipped folder, Windows will prompt you for the password. I should mention that you can generalize this process a bit, by first creating a zipped folder with a password, then adding a whole bunch of files to it.
This way, you can have one password protected folder for all your sensitive files, instead of creating a zipped folder for each file. To do so, right-click in the empty space on the desktop or in any open folder , select New, and then click Compressed zipped Folder.
Enter a name for the compressed folder, press ENTER, and you'll see a new folder icon marked with a zipper. Add a password like we did above. Now you can use drag and drop to move one or many files to the password protected folder. If you have Windows XP Professional, there is another option to turn on passwords for shared folders.
It involves disabling the "Simple File Sharing" option the default in XP and then creating additional user accounts on your computer, which can be authorized to access certain shared folders with a password.
It's ugly, arcane, and it doesn't really do what we want to do add a password to a single file , so I'm not going to go into detail on this.
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