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Password protecting a folder?

I am running Windows Vista Home Edition, and I am wondering if there’s a way to password protect a folder? If not, is there a way to password protect a single file?

Any help would be very much appreciated! Thanks.

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Deąth offline Verified User (1 year, 5 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (3 minutes after post)

and if anyone knows it for windows? thnks :)

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1 year, 4 months ago (15 minutes after post)

I dont know- but you can put a password on your account so people carnt go on it non-stop, do u know how to do that?

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Wabisuke offline Verified User (1 year, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
Montreal, QC, CA | 1 year, 4 months ago (17 minutes after post)

Well duh, yes.
But when you’re on a different account, you can still access other peoples’ files.

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (49 minutes after post)

akabachi wrote:
Well duh, yes.
But when you’re on a different account, you can still access other peoples’ files.

Not if you set the permissions so only you have access to the folder.

or you can use WinZip to zip the folder and put a password on the zip file.

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God's Smith offline Verified User (2 years, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (53 minutes after post)

or you can not save something that you don’t want to know about… usually you write that down on a piece of paper then you put that paper somewhere safe… like a safe

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