password protect a folder in home premium - freeware

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KRK

Hi, and my apologies if this has been asked many times before

There is no way in Vista home premium to password protect a folder (except
perhaps by creating a compressed zip file 1st)

There do appear to be some freeware products out there which say they can do
the job.

Does anyone have experience of these freeware products & is willing to
recommend them ?

Thanks

K
 
Hi,
There is no way in Vista home premium to password protect a folder (except
perhaps by creating a compressed zip file 1st)
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That technique was only supported under XP, it was not ported to Vista.
There do appear to be some freeware products out there which say they can
do the job.
Yep.

Does anyone have experience of these freeware products & is willing to
recommend them ?
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No recommendations. Permissions are much safer and more secure than
passwords. Learn how, use them. It's difficult to crack passwords, but there
are lots of utilities available to help the dishonest do so. Permissions
changes are not so easy to crack when set up properly as the restricted user
cannot access the controls necessary to change them.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
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Rick Rogers's previous post was like this :
No recommendations. Permissions are much safer and more secure than
passwords. Learn how, use them. It's difficult to crack passwords, but there
are lots of utilities available to help the dishonest do so. Permissions
changes are not so easy to crack when set up properly as the restricted user
cannot access the controls necessary to change them.
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Until he guess or reset admin password by other tools.
 
Rick Rogers's previous post was like this :
No recommendations. Permissions are much safer and more secure than
passwords. Learn how, use them. It's difficult to crack passwords, but there
are lots of utilities available to help the dishonest do so. Permissions
changes are not so easy to crack when set up properly as the restricted user
cannot access the controls necessary to change them.
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Permitions are only so strong as admin password
and a way, it is encrypted.

There are tools helping dishonests
to guess or reset login admin passwords,
for XP and alphanumeric PWs very efficient.

One can guess XP alphanumerical password
usually within minutes with aid of boot CD,
or even directly bypass NTFS permitions by this way.

Little helps PW protected BIOS with disabled boot from CD.
 
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