Password protecting a folder.

[kojak]

Hi

I'm on windows ME, and i was wondering if I can password protect a folder in my documents folder.

Can anyone help.

thx

[gbbird]

kojak said:

Hi I'm on windows ME, and i was wondering if I can password protect a folder in my documents folder. Can anyone help. thx

Kojak - i was just wondering how to do this too!

[BliarOut]

Not natively on ME/9.X as it runs the FAT file system, not NTFS like the NT breed of products. There are third party utitities out there to do it on FAT, but I've never used them so I can't comment on whether they are any good or not.

[omitchell]

How secure do you want it, if you want top of the line encryption you could use www.pgp.com

[JonRB]

If you want to secure it properly so that someone else using your machine cannot access it, then you want to create an encrypted virtual drive.

PGP used to have this, but I don't think it does anymore.

However, there is an open-source project called TrueCrypt which can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mount it as a real disk (ie. a drive letter) or can encrypt an entire hard disk partition or a device, such as USB flash drive.

Not sure if it runs on ME as it is only listed as being compatible with Windows XP/2000/2003 and Linux.

More information at www.truecrypt.org

[kojak]

thx.

I shall have a look at the site.

Thx all.