how can you password-protect an entire folder on windows or microsoft word?
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you can do this in windows. You need to have a password on your windows account first. Then we need to know what version of windows you have, 95, 98, ME, XP Home, XP professional, Windows 2003 server etc. Because it differs a little to set it up. You can set each folder/file to have permission for you and any other specific user to access. No need to buy a program.\n\nDo you need this folder to be encrypted? Don't forget that if you encrypt and forget your password it is gone. Anyhow if you can answer those questions we can answer better for you.
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You can't actually password protect a single "folder" but you can with a zip file. Just create a new zipped folder and add your personal info and then select "add password" under the file menu when you open the zip file.
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It is impossible if you have no other software but windows to lock folders, there is no Dos command can do the job.
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Follow the steps:-\n\n1> Click on FILE MENU then cl ilk on SAVE AS option\n\n2> Click on TOOLS option Choose & Click on SECURITY OPTION.\n\n3> Here U can enter a password for OPEN or modify or as a read only.\n\nTry it. And Enjoy the power of YAHOO ANSWER !
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The Windows operating system does not allow you to password-protect individual files. So, you have a couple of choices:\n\n- Password-protect your Windows user account, and make sure that you're the only administrator on the computer. You can do this through the "Users" item in your Windows Control Panel.\n\n- Get some software that lets you password-protect individual files. Examples:\n* Microsoft Office lets you password-protect files, but it isn't very secure. Password recovery software is readily available.\n* WinZip: http://www.winzip.com\n* PGP: http://www.pgp.com\n* A Google search for "password protect files" will turn up lots of software that can do this.\n\n- Store your files somewhere else besides your computer:\n* on a secure USB drive (for example, Lexar JumpDrive Secure, available on Amazon)\n* on an internet-accessible file server (for example, http://briefcase.yahoo.com)
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Two proposal :\n1- On control panel click on User accounts and define an account yourself and activate password protection for it \nI should say if you are administrator of computer you can do this .Create another limited account for other members of family so they can not use your account at windows start up and they must choose limited account and as an administrator of computer you can save your files on adminstrator folder in documents and settings and your data \nwill be private .you must start your computer in safe mode and activate password for each account except limited acounts that you have created it before for family members.\n2- If your format is FAT32 you can not to encrypt your files or folders but if you format your hard drive as NTFS \nyou will be able to encrypt them.
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you can not give a password for a folder in windows.\nthe solution is here:compress the folder with winzip,check mark encrypt addet files.\nthen select a password for it.\nwhen inished, delete the original folder.\nyou can open the zip file when you have the password\nthe second solution is:the free program "encryptonclick". \nIt's easy to use.\nhttp://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html
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basically yes,\nmay require other security software,\n\nthere is option in properties of folder,to put in sharing, shared documents, and select[ _ ]private,\n\ndont forget password though, also write down somewhere for backup...
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Hi,\nyou may download a software from the following site to lock ur folders\n\nhttp://www.newsoftwares.net/folderlock/
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If you have XP Home edition, it cannot be done.\n\nFor XP Pro, folder can be password protected using the security properties for the folder (right-click on folder, select "Sharing and Security", Select "Make This Folder Private".\n\nThe folder is only made private for the the logged on user.  If you only have one user account, making it private is not really effective.  It prevents outside access for sure, but no privacy from users of your computer.\n\nTo make your computer more secure, create user accounts for all users of the computer and password protect your account.
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Follow these steps to require users to provide a valid Windows user name and password to access a folder in IIS 6.0:\n\n1. In IIS Manager, navigate to the folder that you want to password-protect, right-click the folder, and then click Properties.\n\n2. On the Directory Security tab, under Authentication Options, click Edit.\n\n3. Clear the Allow Anonymous Authentication check box.\n\n4. Select and configure one or more of the other authentication options.\n\nYou can also configure password protection for individual files within the folder.\n\nHope this helps.  Let me know if this is the best answer.
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If you don't want to lock everyone out of Windows (as the above suggestes) then check out FineCrypt 9.1 (freeware), http://www.download.com/FineCrypt/3000-2092_4-10494456.html?tag=lst-6-6 it is an encryption tool to encrypt and password protect files/folders.  It's better than the tools Windows offers.  It has a limitation that it can only work with five files at a time.
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search for folder password protection on download.com
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you need folder security. a software use to protect folders. there are many software like this..,
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You can do it with WinZip: in Windows Explorer, right-click the folder and select Add to Zip. In the Add dialog box, click the Password button in the lower-right corner, and then just follow the prompts.\nOnce you're sure your files are safe in their .zip file, delete the original folder and its contents securely.
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Use password encryption with 128 bit cypher strength on all of the files. That will give them a hard way to go!
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Compress it, then add a password, then make it hidden ,then hide it in the windows folder where no one will look for it.