Protect Folder

[jimlau]

I have a folder of documents I want to password protect or something equivalent, to make the folder confidential. does windows 7 allow for doing that, or do I need some third party software?

thanks.

 

[mitchell65]

Windows 7 does not have a native feature to do this but if you Google "Password protect folder on Windows 7" there's loads of ideas!
http://superuser.com/questions/471892/password-protect-folder-on-windows-7

 

[andrew129260]

7 zip can do this quite well, with very good encryption.