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Password protect any folder without any third party software?

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Mar 15, 202611700 views
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Just wanted to know, is it possible to password protect any confidential folder without any third party software? I am using Windows 7 x86 Professional Edition. But the folder i need to protect could be accessed in XP/Vista/7

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There is no built-in feature for "password protection" in the usual sense. (Any suggestions to create a password-protected "compressed folder" should be ignored due to the incredibly weak "security" of ZIP 2.0 encryption.) However, recent Windows ve…

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