In a continuing effort to maintain a bit of privacy on my family shared computer, I am in search of a utility which will enable me to lock a folder or two in Windows 98 with a password. One that will work between programs.
I see there is a lot of stuff out there, but most of it looks to have an awful lot of bells and whistles as well as potential spy ware along with it.
I am looking for something simple, because I am simple minded. Any personal recomendations will be appreciated!
You, of the Straight Dope were ever so helpful in directing me to a utility to allow me a bit of privacy in my favorites, I’m hoping you can help me with this.
Our computer is shared by my husband and myself and our son.
I tried out a few of those folder locking programs as well and found them to be a genuine pain in the ass.
Now I actually use an idea like Joey G describes. Each of us have folders labeled with our names for personal documents, etc. In mine I have one with an obsure name like “Nurturing your inner goddess” with various files. There is one labeled Winpvcy.ini that I designate as hidden. Then I add a shortcut to it in the “send to” file in Windows. I figure even is someone actually finds the file accidently it will appear to be a driver file.
Now when I want to hide something I send it to that folder by right clicking on it. When I want to see it I open the “Goddess” file and change the folder option to “view all files” It takes about 2 seconds, requires no passwords, and is so simple even I haven’t fucked it up.
I use this method for passwords and such, you should see what I do to hide the pr0n.
