Windows XP - How to Password Protect a Folder

http://www.compuvids.com - We teach baby boomers and seniors how to use their computers. - In this video you'll learn how to password protect a folder. This is handy to know if other people use your computer and you need to keep a few things private.

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anybody in this video I'm going to show
you how to make a password-protected
folder
at least that's the way I do it i'll
start by making a folder so right-click
choose new folder
we'll just call this test at will call
it
passware test
ok now let's get some others take a
couple pictures here that we've been
using and move them into this now what
you want to do is right click again to
select their left click to select it
right-click your mouse and send to
compressed folder and you'll see it'll
make a new one right here
now this compressed folder is exactly
the same as this except that it's
compressed so we want to double click
this one and we're going to go to file
and password and i'll just use dog eyes
on to you
g d OG
ok ok now let's test and see how it
works
you see we have to enter the password
ok
now I'm the obvious problem here is that
this one here is just a duplicate of
this
so if you really need to have this
password protected so nobody can get
into it
you need to delete this folder put it in
the recycle bin and empty the recycle
bin
ok that will get rid of it it's not
somebody who's i'll tell you right now
like somebody who's really clever could
in theory recover anything that's been
deleted from the recycle bin
but it would take it takes a lot to do
it but it's not impossible
so if you worry about like the FBI
looking to your files
forget it we're gonna find it so but
this will keep the average Snooper out
so double click it again and like I said
Gary and if you lose this password
you're out of luck there's no way to
recover it
you have to be like a cryptographer or
somebody to figure it out it's virtually
impossible to hack into so it's just
delete it anyway and that's the end of
this video thanks