Thursday, January 05, 2006

Windows Tips: Password-Protect Your Sensitive Files and Folders

Check this article at http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,110663,00.asp which describes simple but useful ways to protect sensitive folders on your Windows Me/XP computer. In short, simply transfer all the folders you want to protect into a compressed zip folder and from the Windows Explorer, goto File->WinZip->Encrypt and enter the password. To disable users to view files in the compressed folder, embed this folder into another folder and compress the latter.

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