Password on Folders...

Is it possible?

Published on January 29, 2006 By RPGFX In Windows XP

Ok... just wondering. Is it possible to make a single folder password protected? I want to password protect my folder with all my finacial info. Any help would be great. I'm running Windows XP Home.

Comments (Page 3)

Jafo

on Feb 08, 2006

Jafo is this it?

Yes...that looks like it...it's obviously been updated to XP, etc...

RPGFX

on Feb 12, 2006

that seem pretty good. I'll try it out. Thanks.

Chris TH

on Feb 12, 2006

I'm going to try the following on my system as a test: create a new user/login with password & assign all the access rights of the folder to be protected to that user. See if the 'runas' option will work as a way of accessing the folder from my default login - sort of like 'su root' in Linux...

Quoting myself, how about that for conceited

Anyway the above works as expected except for Explorer! In other words I can use 'run as..' to start another filemanager (eg. I use Total Commander) with the secure username, enter the password and access the protected files no worries. Also works for a CMD window.

But explorer refuses to even start up - makes no difference if it's run from a shortcut or a commandline with swiches.

Can anyone explain, please?

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Jafo

on Feb 12, 2006

If you restrict system access to a system file...something required by Windows...then you will have problems...

Documentation should stress [somewhere] to be careful what you hid/protect/restrict....

Chris TH

on Feb 13, 2006

If you restrict system access to a system file...something required by Windows...then you will have problems...

Duly noted...

The only files I changed ownership on was a data subdirectory & the files contained within - on a different partition to Windows.

So none of the Windows System files were touched.

It may well be that some DLL's required by Explorer are somehow not included in the 'run as...' request thus causing Explorer to fail. OTOH Total Commander also relies on a slew of DLLs - as reported by Process Explorer anyhow - and still seems to work fine...

thomassen

on Feb 25, 2006

Anyone tried this: http://www.everstrike.com/lock_folder.htm

on Feb 25, 2006

Or it's designed to protect computers from runas abuse with file managers?

Myself, I use runas with notepad and use it's open file browser as file browser.

Just don't forget to set filters to *.*

Jafo

on Feb 25, 2006

thomassen....that's the one I use...

Mediakill

on Feb 26, 2006

Which reminds me do you guys know what program can be used to unlock files with the extension .lock? I have a directory with explicit photos of my current girlfriend i remember the password but can't recall the name of the program i used Think it was called icon lock-it xp or something like that any ideas? wanna recover them, valuable

Jafo

on Feb 26, 2006

http://www.applianmobile.com/pc/pocketlock/docs/pocketlock.htm

That appears to have a '.lock' suffix.

Good luck....

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