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Is there no freeware app to password protect a folder?

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  • 05-05-2005 11:04am
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    Bri
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    Hiya,

    Checked the essential freeware sticky and also searched...best I got was Folderlock version 5.0 which is still shareware.

    Surely someone could recommend a prog to lock a folder without the nag screens?

    Thanks in advance.


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    #2
    Bri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,035 ✭✭✭Bri


    Thanks...I'll give it a go!

    Still open to other recommendations that simply slap a password on!


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    woolymammoth
    Registered Users Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭woolymammoth


    http://www.pcw.co.uk/downloads/1157363

    http://www.pcw.co.uk/downloads/1153721

    you'll get them if you look...

    places you can look for stuff like this or anything else,

    pcw.co.uk
    pcworld.com
    download.com
    snapfiles.com [best]

    alternatively, just put the right words into google.

    google.ie....


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    voxpop
    Registered Users Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭voxpop


    zero footprint crypt


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    Tony H
    Registered Users Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭Tony H


    Try cryptext , right click and enter password and your sorted

    cant find a link , i can email it to you if you want


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    Spunog UIE
    Registered Users Posts: 2,651 ✭✭✭Spunog UIE


    http://www.yousendit.com/

    stick it up on that and post the reference link, usually lasts for a while depending on how many times its downloaded etc'


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    Bri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,035 ✭✭✭Bri


    bedlam wrote:
    Oh just noticed I have already suggested this to you in a previous thread about pgping files :)
    Oops :D Having got PGP again I found it didn't suit me...think I was short of time at the time. Much appreciated anyway!

    Thanks for all the replies - but in this case I don't want to have to decrypt/zip/etc a folder - I simply want to be able to restrict access to a documents folder when I leave my laptop unattended.


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    Clinical Waste
    Registered Users Posts: 1,574 ✭✭✭Clinical Waste


    Was going to suggest a smartcard system, but forgot you didnt want to pay for your security.


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    #9
    Bri
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    lol my door is smartcarded but I leave it open quite a lot! :D

    I'll survive tbh, just have to leave it on the login screen of XP.


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Convert the Volume to NTFS (if it's not already there) and enable EFS on the folder in question. Then password protect your screensaver. You won't have to decrypt the folder to access it, and someone would need to know your password to access it.


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    #11
    Bri
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    Thanks suppose this is better than logging off but I dislike having password protection on my screensaver cos it can locks too quickly or else I have to goto desktop properties and do all that stuff. Lazy is not the word :D


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