Best non intrusive method to password protect a win7 folder?

[xwray]

From what I can gather there is no straightforward way to password protect a Win7 folder using the native capabilities of Win7. Ideally I'd like to password protect the Documents folder but I suspect that's gonna be impossible so I'll probably have to be content with protecting individual folders within the Documents folder. So, is there a consensus on the best third party tool to facilitate folder password protection without resorting to encryption...I just want to be able to put a password on an existing folder such wthat when you try to open it a dialog box will pop up and ask for the password and then open normally. I'm running 64bit Win7.


Any feedback is appreciated

 

[logicearth]

Why would you need to password protect a folder anyways? If you have multiple people using the computer make them accounts while password protecting your own.

 

[BrightBlessings]

Is this of any use to you?

How to Password-Protect a Folder in Windows 7 | PCWorld

Or this?

http://windows7themes.net/how-to-password-protect-a-folder-in-windows-7.html

 

[xwray]

Why would you need to password protect a folder anyways? If you have multiple people using the computer make them accounts while password protecting your own.

I have my reasons but thanks for responding

 

[xwray]

Is this of any use to you?

How to Password-Protect a Folder in Windows 7 | PCWorld

Or this?

How to password protect a folder in Windows 7? | Windows 7 Themes

I'll check them out...thanks