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i have 1 account on this comp. i want it to be password protected.
permissions works on other users accounts? it wont work for me.
Can you password-lock a folder?
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Wem111 if you only want that those files cannot be accessed by the people in your house. you can create new user with only "standard user" access. then follow the tutorial on post #5.
or put those files in an external HD then put on somewhere that you can locked it, if you are not in your house.
putting it in an external HD can also serve as a backup for your files.
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I was trying to post this much earlier from a library computer:
I'm beginning to get the idea; just like one has to provide a [login and] password to post; OP wants a few to have the passwords to enter and access certain folders, while others [not having the password] cannot enter and access certain folders.
I think there are ways to password-lock a partition, a logical drive. If OP can dedicate a partition containing the protected folders, I believe there are programs that will "force" a password before one can enter.
-- posted from home computer
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New #16
The OP has a Enterprise system with several users. Which to me means their is a I.T. department in control of this system. What ever he/she wants to do with this computer he/she should contact the I.T. department.
I don't believe we should helping someone to by pass the settings a I.T. department has on this computer.
It would be like us helping you to do things on the library computer that the library doesn't want done to their computer. We don't do things like that.
Rule #6 of the forum rules.
6) No discussions of hacking someones system, network, password, etc.
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how is it not clear yet. i want to password protect a folder. that's it. so when you click on the folder it prompts you to enter a password. it doesn't matter how many accounts i have or which accounts have what priviledges. i just want it to happen as ive described above.
i have enterpirse. im switching to home soon.
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New #18
Unfortunately, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 do not provide any features for password protecting files or folders. You need to use a third-party software program to accomplish this.
Try this, but try it on an experimental folder first. I have no idea what it will actually do.
I`m with Jack, we really can`t help you with Enterprise issues, and why do you have it installed in the 1st place ?Last edited by AddRAM; 22 Apr 2015 at 17:47.
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Such behavior does not exist natively in Windows. A 3rd party application is your only option, as AddRAM reports.
Period. And there is no way to fake the idea of a password protected folder via scripts, at least not in a secure manner.
In short, Share with > Nobody will make that file/folder only accessible by you (your user account). It's a quick way to make permission changes.
If denying all other user accounts to a file or folder is your ultimate goal, Werm, take AddRAM's suggestion.
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LaybackBear, if OP is indeed in a business environs, he needs to run everything by company's IT department first & foremost. If OP has material on a "public/shared" harddrive, or on a server, then perhaps it is not a bad idea to only allow access to certain material to only certain individuals. Again, if this is a business computer, sharing/restricting business material, it's best to run etal by company IT. My opinion here: IF it is the case of sharing/restricting nonBusiness material on company equipment, then, for me, I have to bow out.
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