Re: file privacy

Greetings --

Are you asking if you can password-protect an individual file in
WinXP? If so, the answer is "Not exactly." WinXP's file security
paradigm doesn't rely on, or allow, the cumbersome method of password
protection for individual files or folders. Instead, it uses the
superior method of explicitly assigning file/folder permissions to
individual users and/or groups.

HOW TO Set, View, Change, or Remove File and Folder Permissions
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...b;en-us;q308418

As a work-around, you can place the file in a compressed folder,
and set a password to
uncompress the folder to view/access its contents.

If you're asking about password-protecting a file from within a
specific application, you'll have to check that application's
documentation. Microsoft Office's applications have this capability,
and I'm sure other products can to so as well.


Bruce Chambers

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"Barbara" <nyctwinmum@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:06cc01c3620b$01363d40$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I am a new XP Home user. (upgraded from WIndows 98)I
> share my computer with other family members. Is there
> any way to set my files & folders so that other users
> can't open without a password, etc?
>
> Thanks.