Re: PASSWORD PROTECTION FOR FOLDERS IN MY DOCUMENTS

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu)
Date: 01/31/03 

From: "Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 07:12:58 -0700

As this is already in your My Documents, if you have selected
to Make Private your profile, then other accounts already have
no access to it. An account that is an administrator can get
around this however. You could look into using compressed
storage with a password for an added measure, or if you have
XP Pro into using EFS storage. 

--
Roger
"Bill Dodge" <billdodge@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:00a801c2c8ef$2fb0cc90$cef82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA08...
> I have some confidential files in a sub directory (folder)
> in My Documents which is located in my partitioned D
> drive.  How can I protect access to this folder?  In other
> words, I don't want anyone to be able to access it just
> because they're using the computer and happen to see the
> folder under My Documents.  I want to secure the
> particular folder with a password, but I want to leave
> other folders accessible in My Documents.  Thank you.

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