Re: Password to Windows XP folder forgotten

From: Bellelady (Bellelady_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/25/05 

Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 06:56:03 -0700

Okay so how do i unprivatize the folder..I don't have XP pro that I know of :
).
Working on the other suggestion. Thank you

"Gordon" wrote:

> Bellelady wrote:
> || "Gordon" wrote:
> ||
> ||| 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?
> ||
> || Bellelady: I don't know. Give me examples of third-party software? I
> || can't remember what I did to do it. My computer was networked with
> || someone elses and there was some things I didn't want them to see so
> || I somehow did it that it wouldn't share.
>
> You either made your folder Private, or, if using XP Pro, you could have set
> permissions on the folder.
> Have a look in Help and Support for making folders Private.
>
>
> |||
> ||||| When I try to open the file a search window comes up for
> ||||| one.
> |||
>
> Here's one solution I found for this:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~lreynol929/ruXP/Misc/double.htm
>
> HTH
> --
> Gordon Burgess-Parker
> Interim Systems and Management Accounting
> www.gbpcomputing.co.uk
>
>
>

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