Passcoding a Windows Folder

Factual Questions
1

My boss swears you can do this. I can’t see how.

Basically we have some forms on Excel. Instead of passcoding every form he wants to create a folder (thru Explore) and put a passcode on it so only he can open that folder.

I can’t see how that could be done without passcoding the whole drivce.

I tried to create a folder, right click on it, and I went to sharing and put a passcode on it but I got into it easy.

Any way my boss insists the last MIS person he had did this for him. (I am not an MIS person)

Any ideas?

Again he doesn’t want to passcode the workbook, nor can he passcode the computer.

2

Oh you sure can & really easy too. Visit download.com put i the search box ‘folder password’ [no quotes] youll have a few programs that can do it.

BTW, windows makes very special protection software too but I don’t know where to get it.

3

If you are serious, emphasize serious, about securing your data, I suggest a program called ScramDisk. Available for free from some guys in England. Lots of encryption options and it can be set up to keep stuff from lying around in the swap file and other obscure corners of the system.

Google it.

I wish I lived in a country where people were free to offer such lovely software to one and all.

FtG aka GLP

4

Thanks, so I gather though in short there is no way to do it just from windows.

Like I said this guy could easily passcode each Excel workbook but he wants to apply the same logic to a folder. In otherwords he wants no passcodes on the computer itself.

5

I looked up ‘passwords’ under START:H they say:
To change the password for a shared folder or printer

In Windows Explorer or My Computer, click the folder you want to share.
On the File menu, click Properties.
Click the Sharing tab, and, if necessary, click the Access Type you want for the shared resource.
Under Passwords, type the new password for the access type you selected.

Note

Passwords are used only with share-level access control. For more information, click Related Topics.
You probably know about this though.

6

If you’re using Windows 2000 (or other NT), and your hard disk is setup as NTFS, you can setup a folder so that only certain users can access it. So when you turn on the computer (or logon), if you log in as the appropriate user, you’ll be able to open that folder and use it’s contents. If you’re not the right user, you won’t be able to. Note that if you’re an ineligable user, you won’t be prompted; you’ll just be denied. You’ll have to log out and log back in as an eligible user.

If this is what you’re after, right click the folder, choose properties, choose the security tab. Now, Add the appropriate user, then give him the appropriate permissions, and deny the permissions to others.