Do you want to lock and password protect your important folders in Windows 7 or Vista? If you are an administrator and have multiple accounts set up in Windows 7 / Vista, then you can block few important folders so that they can not be accessed by other users. Every time the blocked folder will be accessed, it will ask for administrator password. Therefore the folder will be locked permanently unless you don’t remove the lock yourself.
To lock a folder, right-click on that folder and select Properties. Now navigate to Security tab, and click Edit as shown in the screenshot below.
A new window will pop-up, now under “Group and User Names”, select the user from the list whom you want to deny access to a specific folder, now under “Permissions for Users” check the Deny checkbox next to Modify(all other checkbox will get ticked automatically) as shown in the screenshot below.
Click OK and then click Yes when a Windows Security window will pops-up as shown in the screenshot below.
Now click OK again and you are done. Now the specific user that you selected from the list will be denied access to this folder. It’s that simple!
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BUT WHAT PROGRAM SHOULD I USE IF I SHARE A USER ACCOUNT ON VISTA AND A WANNA MAKE A FOLDER/FILE PASSSWORD PROTECTED FOR FREE?
how to lock a folder from Guest user to use ? email answer me plz.
my question is how can i make to a folder under password proccess please send me deatils
thank you
ok what ever thought right but if i want lock folder to.bat extension how can i do .bat extension to make a folder plz tell me it different thing but help me and sort out the my problem.”Thanks”
Ive done this but now want to take the password off, how do I do this?
Try take a look at this little nifty program:
http://www.fsprolabs.com/download/distr/mylockb...
Try take a look at this little nifty program:
http://www.fsprolabs.com/download/distr/mylockb...
Try take a look at this little nifty program:
http://www.fsprolabs.com/download/distr/mylockb...
thanx man that little software waz great…..!!!
wow this is too gud OLE
Tnx a lot for sharing this…..
this link worked good, program was good, and best of all FREE for lifetime, not a trial.
Question is how to password protect a folder and not how to filter out users… basically what we want is when ANY user including the user who created the folder clicks on the folder it will promt you to enter a password before that folder opens…..as far as I know there is no way to do this on windows pista I mean vista. Another dumb way microsoft does file management.
Google search “how to lock a folder in windows”; you’ll get more sites than you may care to even bother looking at.
Paid for: Folder-Lock v6.4.1 ($40)
http://download.cnet.com/Folder-Lock/3000-2092_4-10063343.html
Google search “how to lock a folder in windows for free”:
Freebie: Microsoft Private Folder
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Lockdown/Microsoft-Private-Folder.shtml
Freebie: WinGuard Pro
http://www.winguardpro.com/wgfree.html
(you can get the professional suite for $12. Check out the FAQs – which may be too much monkeying around with something that should be a relatively simple process.)
Freebie: Folder locking
http://www.techmixer.com/lock-personal-folder-with-password-on-windows-using-folder-locking-freeware/
(there are multiple programs associated with this site – pick and choose or get them all)
Freebie: Folder Safe
http://www.foldersafe.biz/
(this is a relatively new company. Looks okay, but I’m always leary of a company’s website that offers so little information about their product(s)/service(s).
Freebie: True Crypt
http://www.truecrypt.org/
(then you get companies like TrueCrypt Foundation, who offers an open source program, plenty of information and documentation on their website, and the program does a lot. Check it out to see if it fits your wants and desires.
Take it even further and Google search “how to lock a folder in windows {operating system}” or add the words “for free” after the OS.
Just a few things that might kill an hour of your day! (haha)
Good luck!
Thanks a lot! The best part of this is that there’s no need to install any software.
Folder Protect is the best…from NewSoftwares
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