password protecting folders?
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NTFS is the disk format used by Windows.
As for setting up the permissions you need to decide which users should have access to which folders then go through the folders which need to be restricted and set the access levels for each user appropriately - "no access" to prevent a user accessing it and "full control" for the user which needs access.
As for setting up the permissions you need to decide which users should have access to which folders then go through the folders which need to be restricted and set the access levels for each user appropriately - "no access" to prevent a user accessing it and "full control" for the user which needs access.
oh ok thanks.
But I meant how can I password protect a folder seperatly from the user rights.
Basically because I have confidential material in a folder which I don't want people to see. But when my friends are round they use my acount, so I need something that's seperate if you know what I mean.
Go to command prompt, type following
c:\ <insert folder location>
c:\ attrib +h <folder name>
This will hide the folder, to un hide it, type the same but "-h".
Thanks, that could be useful if I don't find something else.
But I was hoping for something a bit more simple so that I could access it easily when I need to.
There was a thread on here asking the same question a while back, I'm pretty sure there wasn't a perfect solution simply because the Windows user rights model is sufficiently flexible to make the market for a third party solution pretty small.
The simplest way is going to be to have a separate user for accessing the confidential stuff and just fast switch between that and your normal user.
The simplest way is going to be to have a separate user for accessing the confidential stuff and just fast switch between that and your normal user.
Yeah I was thinking of that, how much extra HDD space does creating an additional user acount take up? because I'm limited for HDD space atm.
That works, but if you step away for a moment, and you've not locked the BIOS down... your friends could boot from USB / CD / other HDD and see everything.
If it's adult pr0n, then it will be just a few red faces. If it's something else....
Your level of paranoia should be directly proportional to the level of sensitivity of your confidential material.
That works, but if you step away for a moment, and you've not locked the BIOS down... your friends could boot from USB / CD / other HDD and see everything.
If it's adult pr0n, then it will be just a few red faces. If it's something else....
Your level of paranoia should be directly proportional to the level of sensitivity of your confidential material.
No it's not any type of porn or anything embarressing, it's just sensitive infomation which for that very reason I cannot say what it is.
The BIOS thing should not be an issue since none of the people using my PC are that good with computers.
'fraid im skint.
Best free option IMO is to download True Crypt
http://www.truecrypt.org/
Create a Virtual Disk and save all your sensitive information there. Set a password for the drive, mark is as a favourite volume and your done.
Soon as you log on, it'll ask for a password to mount the disk, if no password is typed, the drive stays hidden.
P.S. You can set True Crypt to single user start-up so if someone else logs in, True Crypt will not auto-start.
http://www.truecrypt.org/
Create a Virtual Disk and save all your sensitive information there. Set a password for the drive, mark is as a favourite volume and your done.
Soon as you log on, it'll ask for a password to mount the disk, if no password is typed, the drive stays hidden.
P.S. You can set True Crypt to single user start-up so if someone else logs in, True Crypt will not auto-start.
does it have a folder size limit?
cheers I'll check them out.
oh ok, cool, cheers for that.
I'll have a go with it
I used something called cryptainer before but it kept corrupting and it had a 25mb cap on it which made it a bit useless anyway.