Password on files

[Owen]

I was just wondering if it is possible to put a password
on any file/folder using Win XP Home.

 

[bob]

Hello,
As far as I know, without using any 3rd party programs,
you can only password files when they are compress or
zipped. You can use a program like omnipass to put a
password on files, you can check out the 30 day trial at
www.softex.com. Once installed, add a user to the
program, login, then right click the file and go to
OmniPass Encrypt.

Hope I Helped

 

[NobodyMan]

You can password protect a branch of folders, such as your personal account
on a computer used by multiple people but you cannot apply a password to a
folder or a file.

In XP, you can't password protect folders/files. That's the nonNT
version of protecting folders!

In the NT/XP scheme, you protect your files/folders by setting
permissions on them, restricting what kind of access you want each
user/group to have on the file/folder in question. Setting
permissions of a folder usually cascades to all sub-folders/files in
that tree, unless you specify otherwise.

 

[NobodyMan]

But isn't this function available only in XP Pro and not in XP Home?

OK, you got me there. It *may* be available in Home, but since I
don't use it or help anybody who does (I only work with Pro systems
with XP) I can't speak from experience.

I can say this - some sort of file/folder protection IS there, and
since NT has never used password protection, passwords are definitely
NOT there. I think you can turn off simple file sharing in home if
you boot into safe mode as Administrator.

Of course lots of this discussion is moot if you're not using NTFS.
FAT32 just doesn't have all the security features of NTFS.