Re: General WinXP knowledge â?" passwording and locking file folders

From: *Vanguard* (no-email_at_post-reply-in-newsgroup.invalid)
Date: 04/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 02:27:31 -0500

"Drone4four" said in
news:0A386C36-C478-4DFB-BAAD-01E093A13385@microsoft.com:
> I have many files (mostly word documents) that contain sensitive and
> private information all stored in many directories and file folders.
> Shortly I will be sharing my computer with my family and would like
> to prevent my relatives from looking at any of these files. I can
> easily lock individual word documents with passwords. And because
> locking each 500+ word documents would be too time consuming, I think
> that it would be just easier to lock the parent directory file
> folder. However, I do not know how to lock a parent directory or
> hard drive. My problem is: I donâ?Tt know how to lock file folders.
> Can an experienced user help me out?
>
> Drone4four

Use EFS (encryption file system). You can designate which accounts will
have access to read the contents of your files. You can also use
permissions to regulate which accounts (under that instance of Windows)
can read, write, delete, etc. 

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