On 16 Mar 2006 at 11:38, Jose Louies wrote:

> Hi all ,
> 
> It is a simple question  to answer .
> 
> I want to password protect all the contents of  some folder in my computer -
> OS -  Windows XP  SP -2  File system  : NTFS5
> Any help
> 
> Jose 

  Win 9x attempted to protect "shares" with passwords (not very well).  XP, 
though, like NT and 2K, takes the more industry-conventional approach of 
using passwords to verify user accounts, and then (IF your drive is 
formatted using NTFS instead of FAT32!) associating access permissions with 
various user accounts.  Your best option is probably to find some way to get 
this approach to meet your actual security needs.

  There are various third-party utilities out there which do something like 
what you want.  Probably the simplest is to wrap each file/folder in a 
passworded .zip file.  Note that there's probably no good way to do this 
with individual data files that are used by an application....

David Gillett

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