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Create a password on a folder
Name: dannyhilton Date: September 7, 2008 at 23:55:51 Pacific OS: XP Service Pakc 3 CPU/Ram: 2GB Product: Lenovo
Comment:
Hi guys. I need to make one of my folders more secure and would like to create a password so that only I can access this (so when I click on the doler it asks for my password). I've tried to edit this in the folder settings but can't seem to do anything like this? Thanks for your help guys.
Name: dannyhilton Date: September 8, 2008 at 16:00:44 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks very much for that mate. Second option worked perfectly!
Cheers.
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Response Number 3
Name: asim patel Date: September 14, 2008 at 05:59:04 Pacific
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if u wanna make ur folder private so no need to instal any third party software ..u hav to enable admin acount and . make a user .if any other user wanna acess ur system den they hav 2 logon as dat user acount and u can give da permission to access dat folder ..if u give deny acess no one can acess ur folder ..only admin acount or admin group acount can acess ur folder.its very long process if u dont wanna instal any thirdparty software .. [but it ll work on only ntfs formated drive]
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