password protect a folder in home premium - freeware

Hi, and my apologies if this has been asked many times before

There is no way in Vista home premium to password protect a folder (except
perhaps by creating a compressed zip file 1st)

There do appear to be some freeware products out there which say they can do
the job.

Does anyone have experience of these freeware products & is willing to
recommend them ?

Thanks

K

Hi,

> There is no way in Vista home premium to password protect a folder (except
> perhaps by creating a compressed zip file 1st)

That technique was only supported under XP, it was not ported to Vista.

> There do appear to be some freeware products out there which say they can
> do the job.

Yep.

> Does anyone have experience of these freeware products & is willing to
> recommend them ?

No recommendations. Permissions are much safer and more secure than
passwords. Learn how, use them. It's difficult to crack passwords, but there
are lots of utilities available to help the dishonest do so. Permissions
changes are not so easy to crack when set up properly as the restricted user
cannot access the controls necessary to change them.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"KRK" <> wrote in message
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> Hi, and my apologies if this has been asked many times before
>
> There is no way in Vista home premium to password protect a folder (except
> perhaps by creating a compressed zip file 1st)
>
> There do appear to be some freeware products out there which say they can
> do the job.
>
> Does anyone have experience of these freeware products & is willing to
> recommend them ?
>
> Thanks
>
> K

Rick Rogers's previous post was like this :
>

>
> No recommendations. Permissions are much safer and more secure than
> passwords. Learn how, use them. It's difficult to crack passwords, but there
> are lots of utilities available to help the dishonest do so. Permissions
> changes are not so easy to crack when set up properly as the restricted user
> cannot access the controls necessary to change them.

Until he guess or reset admin password by other tools.

--
Poutnik
The best depends on how the best is defined.

Rick Rogers's previous post was like this :
>
>
>
> No recommendations. Permissions are much safer and more secure than
> passwords. Learn how, use them. It's difficult to crack passwords, but there
> are lots of utilities available to help the dishonest do so. Permissions
> changes are not so easy to crack when set up properly as the restricted user
> cannot access the controls necessary to change them.

Permitions are only so strong as admin password
and a way, it is encrypted.

There are tools helping dishonests
to guess or reset login admin passwords,
for XP and alphanumeric PWs very efficient.

One can guess XP alphanumerical password
usually within minutes with aid of boot CD,
or even directly bypass NTFS permitions by this way.

Little helps PW protected BIOS with disabled boot from CD.

--
Poutnik
The best depends on how the best is defined.

OK , thanks, will read up on permissions and use that route

K


"Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
>> There is no way in Vista home premium to password protect a folder
>> (except perhaps by creating a compressed zip file 1st)
>
> That technique was only supported under XP, it was not ported to Vista.
>
>> There do appear to be some freeware products out there which say they can
>> do the job.
>
> Yep.
>
>> Does anyone have experience of these freeware products & is willing to
>> recommend them ?
>
> No recommendations. Permissions are much safer and more secure than
> passwords. Learn how, use them. It's difficult to crack passwords, but
> there are lots of utilities available to help the dishonest do so.
> Permissions changes are not so easy to crack when set up properly as the
> restricted user cannot access the controls necessary to change them.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "KRK" <> wrote in message
> news:eEbhn6i$...
>> Hi, and my apologies if this has been asked many times before
>>
>> There is no way in Vista home premium to password protect a folder
>> (except perhaps by creating a compressed zip file 1st)
>>
>> There do appear to be some freeware products out there which say they can
>> do the job.
>>
>> Does anyone have experience of these freeware products & is willing to
>> recommend them ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> K
>