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password software

passingthrough · 2012-01-16 17:23:36

does anyone know of any good software to sue to protect files and folders on my laptop? preferably free. iv looked at a few but its hard to know how good any of them are

16-01-2012 5:23pm

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passingthrough

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does anyone know of any good software to sue to protect files and folders on my laptop? preferably free. iv looked at a few but its hard to know how good any of them are

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#2 16-01-2012 8:31pm

Alanstrainor

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Move to Comp and Tech from laptops.

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#3 16-01-2012 8:57pm

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http://www.truecrypt.org/

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#4 16-01-2012 10:09pm

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the simplest I can think of is 7zip which can compress and/or password protect archive

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#5 16-01-2012 10:12pm

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_AVALANCHE_ wrote: »

http://www.truecrypt.org/

yep, it's great & you can choose to encrypt your entire hard-drive, or just folders. Also works on usb drives.

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