Re: Password to Windows XP folder forgotten

From: Gordon (gordonbp1_at_yahoo.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 04/25/05 

Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:00:43 +0100

Bellelady wrote:
|| I do not have an administrator password so I just go into XP. I
|| assigned a password to a folder with a bunch of files and forgot the
|| password.

Windows does not natively support password-protecting files or folders. Are
you using some third-party software?

||When I try to open the file a search window comes up for
|| one.

How are you trying to open the file? What sort of file?

||It is in "My Documents". Well I press search and all the files
|| under the folder comes up but when I try to open it it says "The
|| document or path is not valid. Try these suggestions: check file
|| permission for document or drive. Use open dialog box to locate
|| document."
||
|| So my questions are why does the search window come up every time I
|| try to open a file and then get the error message. I know I have a
|| passowrd on the file but how do i come up to the box for the
|| password to even try to guess??
||
|| Thanks

Have you tried opening "My Documents" and openeing the file from there? 

-- 
Gordon Burgess-Parker
Interim Systems and Management Accounting
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk

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