How To Lock And Password Protect A Folder In Windows 7
Justin James reviews Protected Folder, which allows you to make portions of your file system completely invisible and inaccessible to others.
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Protected Folder is a highly customized folder protection software and it consist different locking options such as: Hide, Deny Read Access, Deny Read Access. You can simply drag and drop files or folders to the tool and easily lock/unlock them. You can protect files and folder from windows directory also. Also, in this tool, read the protected files/folders from the software without unlocking protection.
This is absolutely true. With that said, it is mentioned up front at the beginning of this tutorial that this method for creating a password Protected Folder is not 100% sure, and is intended to hide files from the casual observer. You can use software like TrueCrypt to create a truly secure password protected folder, but that involves downloading, installing and setting up TrueCrypt. See: -to-securely-store-files-in-windows/ for more details (although that's a fairly old tutorial and is probably out of date, it will give you an overview and very good idea of what's involved in using TrueCrypt).
It worked, but I found out something: On step 3, you can change every single Private” into the name of the folder you want, but you need to replace spaces of both the folder name and the password into signs like _ But I also know how to take over that file and change the password. If you know how to change file types by renaming them, then you should already know how to take over that file. That's why this page said: While the steps below will guide you in creating a hidden and password protected folder, this method is not 100% secure. It will deter the average computer user enough, but an advanced user will be able to access the contents of this folder.” This quote meant that some people (like me) know how to take over that file. Sorry for a long comment.