Is it possible to password-protect specific folders and files on a windows vista?

Question

I have a desktop home edition windows vista, and want to password-protect certain individual files and folders (not my entire user profile) is this possible? if so, how?

Answer 1

Want absolute control over who has access to your files and folders? Learn how to password protect folders and files in VISTA quickly and easily. Make sure no one else can access your private information without permission.



Step 1



CLOSE THE FILES OR FOLDER, IF OPEN. To password protect folders in VISTA, you should first close them. This is particularly true if you are setting password protection to an executable file (.exe) or a folder that contains an executable file (also called a program). If you are unsure of an executable file's status, press control+alt+delete to view all programs running.



Step 2



LOCATE THE FILES OR FOLDERS YOU WISH TO PASSWORD PROTECT. Do NOT click to open the file or folder. You can find files or folders by using the "COMPUTER" tool in your Vista Start Menu.



Step 3



RIGHT CLICK ON THE FILE OR FOLDER'S ICON. To access the option to password protect folders in VISTA, right click on the file or folder icon. Select "Properties", at the bottom of the resulting pop-up menu.



Step 4



CLICK THE 'SECURITY' TAB IN POP-UP WINDOW. In the pop-up Properties menu, click the 'SECURITY' tab on the top right of the pop-up window.



Step 5



CHANGE FOLDER PERMISSIONS. In the Security menu, you will see two white text boxes. The top box shows various users and user groups on your computer. Highlight the user group you wish to deny access to the program and click the "edit" button between the two boxes. You should now be able to add or deny access to the program for the selected user by clicking options in the bottom white text box. Edit the options for each user or user group you wish to deny access to. Click apply after editing for each user. When finished, click "OK". Next, click "OK" on the Security window to approve changes. You have locked the program down and users must now access your Vista user account by password to access the program. Once logged into your Windows Vista user account, you will not have to supply the password to access the file or folder.



Step 6



TEST ~ To make sure you actually did lock Internet Explorer, try to open the program. Log out of your user account and log in as the user you have locked out of file or folder. If you are unable to locate the file or folder as the prohibited user, you did password protect folder in Vista.



I hope this helps!



Brett M,

Windows Outreach Team

Answer 2

This depends on what kind of files you want to be secured, I know a way to secure lock your documents from MS Office (excel, powerpoint and word) for word click tools then protect document (I would also assume that same procedure is the same for excel and powerpoint.



As for folder security best way to do it is to download winrar from rarlabs.com click download and choose either 32bit or 64bit depends on your OS, I would suggest the 32bit. then install it after installing it right click to your desired folder to protect and choose add to archive a new window will pop up and go to advance tab and hit the set password.



I hope this one helps.

Answer 3

There are lots of privacy apps in Google play store but the main issue with them is, they came with hell lots of ads and membership modules. There is an App in Play store that provides advanced protection to your smartphone and consumes with less amount of resource usage. From last 1 month I have been using Leo Privacy Guard and I must say its a cool privacy app with some below features



1. Hide Pictures and Videos with an ease.

2. High security biometric Finger print lock.



You can try out you wont regret for sure.

Answer 4

use winrar compress and password protect folder files drive

Answer 5

Security is major issue for me but once I install this LEO Privacy Guard I do not have a single issue with my android device. I even suggested installing this software to so many people around me and as per your problem I think you even should try it as it is free of cost and worth it to install.