Password protect a folder?

Does anyone know of a shareware or free program that will password
protect a folder in XP?

I'll bet Google knows.

Do you have XP Pro? Use EFS.
---
Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

jetjock wrote:
> Does anyone know of a shareware or free program that will password
> protect a folder in XP?

jetjock <jetjock@hanger.com> wrote in
news:bqh7m4to2ak35vr8pfc2topospfvpgdtuc@4ax.com:

> Does anyone know of a shareware or free program that will password
> protect a folder in XP?

http://www.truecrypt.org/

"jetjock" <jetjock@hanger.com> wrote in message
news:bqh7m4to2ak35vr8pfc2topospfvpgdtuc@4ax.com...
> Does anyone know of a shareware or free program that will password
> protect a folder in XP?

There are several, but you should start with:
a) understanding what you want to protect, why, and from what;
b) understanding what the protection actually does, and
c) understanding what happens if you lose the keys.

For example, you might think that using XP Pro you can protect a folder
using EFS. This is sort of correct, but if anyone can get into your
account, anyone can also read those protected files, so you have to have a
good password, don't store it, change it regularly and don't allow automatic
logins. And you must also - though this is wrongly left optional - export
the account certificates so that if something goes wrong with your Windows
install or profile, you can import the certificates and decrypt those files.
Again, those certificates have to be safely stored and verified. If you
don't do those things, you can permanently lose the data.

A simple way to do this is to just zip the files and password-protect the
zip file. However, you do want to know how easy it is to crack the
passwords.

HTH
-pk

Fuzzy Logic <bob@arc.ab.caREMOVETHIS> wrote in
news:Xns9B8B93CA42667bobarcabca@207.46.248.16:

> jetjock <jetjock@hanger.com> wrote in
> news:bqh7m4to2ak35vr8pfc2topospfvpgdtuc@4ax.com:
>
>> Does anyone know of a shareware or free program that will password
>> protect a folder in XP?
>
> http://www.truecrypt.org/

I'll second that freeware recommendation.

-- John

On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:06:26 -0600, jetjock <jetjock@hanger.com>
wrote:

>Does anyone know of a shareware or free program that will password
>protect a folder in XP?

Many thanks to all who posted. I was able to obtain a full version of
Folder Lock that has solved by problem.