OS = W2K. I have heard that you can set a password on a folder. I've got some confidential letters on one of my partitions and i'd like to set a password lock on the entire folder. How do you do this? TIA.

Do you share this computer with another user?

Nightly Reader

1. I assume your sensitive data is on an NTFS-formatted partition.

2. Do you have only one user set up on Win2K? You probably know about assigning permissions to files or folders based on Users/Groups; that will benefit you only if you have multiple user accounts.

3. If you don't want to protect via #2, then have a look at CipherBox and Crunch, freeware encryption utilities indexed at WebAttack. EDIT: Also the humorously labelled "HandiBits EasyCrypto" on the second page of that search.

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Thanks Mojo - i had hoped there was a way to do this w/out installing a 3rd party application but atleast they are freeware. And yes they are on a NTFS partition.

What is giving you the idea you need third party software? Go into a little more detail as far as what you want, then maybe somebody can give you the solution.

Nightly Reader

>What is giving you the idea you need third party software? Go
>into a little more detail as far as what you want, then maybe
>somebody can give you the solution.

Good god - talk about being a bit stubborn. Did you read my post?

Listen, I have a folder. it has confidential documents. I want to lock it by setting a password using NTFS. Get it?

You password your whole account when you log on. What more do you need? All you have to do is set permissions.

Nightly Reader

Dude - do me a favor - please stop responding to my posts. You're exasperating me. Thanks.

Dude, you're the one that asked for help, not me. If you don't want help, why bother asking. Just figure it out on your own from now on.

Nightly Reader

NTFS permissions don't work that way. Permissions are user based... create another account for other users of the computer to use and set a strong password on yours. Add your user to the access control list on the Security tab and grant your user Full Control. Click the Advanced button, and on the owership tab, ensure that it's your user that owns the directory. After doing all that, remove other users and groups from the access control list. Much easier than installing and configuring third party software.

Then, only your user can access the folder. You can encrypt the files as well if desired.

So your choices are to use the features of the NTFS filesystem the way they are designed to work, or third party software.

Grogan

Safety Deposit Box.Works for me.

LilJoe

Not freeware, but Chameleon is a cheap stenography program. And of course there's Steganos, probably the more well-known security suite.