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by bkelley

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With Windows 2000 pro. is there a way to password protect a directory and or files so that the person loged on has to enter a password in order to open the file. I want to make certain that if someone happens to find my login and password that in order to gain access to certain files they would have to know another password. I thought that I had heard of a registry hack that would enable me to do this without extra software.

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by shanghai sam

Before I did anything with the registry, I would check into any number of the freeware applications available that will do exactly what you want. I use freeware PGP for my email, and it has file encryption capabilities built into it (I haven't usedthese so I can't speak to how well this portion of program works). You may want to check the Ziff-Davis download site. They always have a large collection of free/shareware utilities available for this sort of thing.

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