+John Teacake MVC Posted October 4, 2013 MVC Share Posted October 4, 2013 Whats the best freeware available to password protect Windows XP folders. I'm thinking there must be something on Sourceforge. What are your recommendations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Arachno 1D Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 Im curious why your specifying XP as most will encrypt folders without reference to the OS ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +John Teacake MVC Posted October 4, 2013 Author MVC Share Posted October 4, 2013 Because the users have XP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 _dandy_ Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 You don't "password-protect" folders. You assign access rights to the folder to individual users and/or groups. Look up Access Control Lists. ...and that's not XP-specific; this is a function of NTFS and it's worked this way for a long, long time now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +BudMan MVC Posted October 4, 2013 MVC Share Posted October 4, 2013 If you wanted to encrypt folders you would use EFS.. XP supported this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307877 What is the end goal here? If you looking to encrypt data via 3rd party solution I would look to truecrypt. But without knowing details of what your wanting to accomplish its hard to say.. What I can tell you from experience is you let the user "encrypt" what will end up happening is they will lock themselves out of their own data and then blame IT to why they can not get access to their files. efs can bet setup so their is always a recovery option that can be outside the users control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 sc302 Veteran Posted October 4, 2013 Veteran Share Posted October 4, 2013 Don't make users administrators of the computer and lock out the folders based on what user is logged in. That would be the cheapest. Next would be to encrypt folders or partitions. But maybe if we knew a little more we could recommend something better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Whats the best freeware available to password protect Windows XP folders. I'm thinking there must be something on Sourceforge. What are your recommendations?
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