How Do U Pass-Protect Folders?

[Aero Zeppelin]

Is there any way to password-protect folders in WinMe?

[Reaper]

http://www.webattack.com/get/filevault.shtml

[randman]

I'm glad I don't have to hide my porn. ;)

[John M]

/me high fives randman

its great having your own computer :)

[randman]

/me high fives John M back

For some reason I find your avatar and sig strangely disturbing. :D

[Aero Zeppelin]

Originally posted by randman
/me high fives John M back

For some reason I find your avatar and sig strangely disturbing. :D
I know how you feel. That's very weird.:eek:

Tanks blindreaper it works great except that you have to put in the files with no folders included.

btw, I don't have any porn on my comp, just bikini pics but if I got caught with them I'd be in almost as much troble.:rolleyes:

[primenumber]

You can also zip the files or folders and protect them with a password.

Another option is to make the folder hidden but that isn't perfect. In order to access the hidden files or folders, you would have to click tools -> folder options and select "Show hidden files and folders" on the View tab. Then after you were done, you would have to go through the same process only selecting "Do not show hidden files and folders."

Or to access hidden folders, you could type in the location into the address location of a window. But doing that would leave the location into the address bar of IE. So if you clicked the arrow next to the address, it would show up in the pull down menu.


Just found http://www.pc-magic.com/ which makes a program that locks folders with a password

[deadrabbit]

maybe this would be enough to convince my g/f that nude photographs taken on the digital camera won't be seen by anyone . . .

[whiteflip]

the way i hide my porn is in a secret folder labled porn on my desktop thats invisable. i just open run and type in porn and it works. then when im done i run a program called windows washer that auto deletes and redeletes (handy cuz i know how to undelete shit) tempoary internet files and the documents folder and other key places

if you want to hide your porn you need a program that does it. or in windows me make a zip file (use windows me's zip folder feature and encrypt your zip file/folder. to enable windows me's zip folder feature uninstall winzip or whatever you use and go to settings. add/remove programs click on the windows set up tab scroll down to system tools and click details and check the compressed folders box

now when you make a zip file (right click on the desktop go to new then compressed folder) you can right click on your zipfolder thing and go to encrypt and you put a password there. however you cant add files to this. so take a folder put files in it and create a zip folder thats encrypted from that folder.

[Aeroe]

anything lewd i keep around is just in a plain view folder... my parents are far too dumb to browse even to c:\media\
but i have nothing XXX as of this moment, just some celebrity pics including those aniston candids.

bikini pics, hell i could put a naked woman on my desktop and even my mom wouldn't care. in fact i did for awhile, God bless deviantart.

[whiteflip]

hey can i get those aniston pics? you could email me or aim them to me. my screen name is in my sig.

[Jay]

Originally posted by AeroLed286
Is there any way to password-protect folders in WinMe? the best way is to just update to XP Pro, if you do this use NTFS as your file system and you can completely and securely lock out any number of folders from all users but your self. If you can't upgrade to Win2k or WinXP, sorry.

[BMWboy]

Originally posted by primenumber
You can also zip the files or folders and protect them with a password.

but it will still display the names of the files, it just will not let you open them. the only way to stop people from seeing the names is to zip the zip file and password that as well.

[eleet-2k2]

Ya, you basically zip/rar/ace your folder, then zip/rar/ace that new file, making sure that both (but especially the first file) is password protected. This will prevent anyone (w/o being fairly advanced with computers who can get around it) from being able to see/read the files and file names.

[apollos]

YAY! Thanks for the link! No need to hide my pr0n now, I can password pretect it.

/me does a kinky dance then crawls back into his cave.

Randman, its great to see you about, Ive missed alot i think over the last few days as i have downloaded GTA 3 and it ate all my bandwidth :(

Im glad im finally back :D

[BMWboy]

another option is to get a CD burner and put your pr0n on CD. It is much easier to hide this way, and it dosen't take up room on your hard drive.

I haven't had to hid my pr0n for about a year now, because I got my own PC. In fact, at college, I had 5 GB of pr0n shared on the network. I was thanked on a daily basis by the guys on my floor.
[EDIT]My computer's name on the network was "Multi-purpose porn storage device"[EDIT]

[whiteflip]

why do you need to save porn. just crack a site for passwords get free access to a porn site and enjoy. stream them videos. then wash your pc with a tracking deleteing utility. i recomend windows washer.

[Curi0us_George]

I know a guy who subscribed to a porno site. He said it was crap. You can get far higher quality files from a file sharing service. Using someone else's password to get into a porn site is illegal, and you could actually be prosecuted for it if the site's admin was in a bad mood.

Burn it to a CD. If your parents find huge passworded zip files, then you are still going to be in it deep, because they are going to tell you to open them.

[Fickle]

I just throw mine in my DRIVERS File, under a made-up driver folder like MOUSE or MONITOR. My parents and siblings don't know a thing about computers so it's easy to hide--just have to clear out my Documents listing on the Start Menu and delete the repeated files in my Recycle bin. To the regular idiot the MONITOR folder is just another driver folder, when in reality it hides all of my movies/pics/bullshit that need to be hidden.

[james]

I have a Win2k box... I am the admin... :D need I say more?!?

[BMWboy]

I used to save mine to a folder in one of my games, in the same format as the other files in that folder(it was Total Annilation, an the folder type was .hpi or .ufo, I can't remember any more). it was a game that I had downloaded hundreds of add-on units for, and finding huge files was not unusual. the file was like 200 MB, and it was in with other real files of similar names. never got caught.

[whiteflip]

tell the parents you dont know how to open those files. paly the ignorant card.

im glad my parents are PC illeterate. my mom is learning though. and my dad is expressing intrest in learning. so i think ima keep my porn strictly on my linux partition. they are afraid of it cuz there isn't a start menu.

[psycho_maniac]

i hide mine in my mp3 player. soon it will be on a cd's. cuz my aunt comes over and checks my computer. ill have my own computer and ill burn them. so fat i havnt got cought. i got 1000 and counting. i found a free site with like 1 million pics 4 free. well most of them r free. :winamp: also i hid my stuff on my mp3 player also just incase she checks that.

[ctn|chrisw]

Originally posted by psycho_maniac
i hide mine in my mp3 player. soon it will be on a cd's. cuz my aunt comes over and checks my computer. ill have my own computer and ill burn them. so fat i havnt got cought. i got 1000 and counting. i found a free site with like 1 million pics 4 free. well most of them r free. :winamp: also i hid my stuff on my mp3 player also just incase she checks that.

I hope ur aunt isnt a members of this forum :D

[fwgx]

I went google and typed +password +<some other word>, then went to the first site. Never needed go anywhere else since.

[ctn|chrisw]

God...is everyone on the winamp forums a perv?

[Lapikas]

Aren't you?? Wov! that's freaky :p

[fwgx]

Originally posted by cmw6988
God...is everyone on the winamp forums a perv? Yep, me especially. I own everyone else.

[ctn|chrisw]

Originally posted by Phily Baby
Yep, me especially. I own everyone else.

LOL


Note 2 everyone: Wake UP!

[ctn|chrisw]

philly baby what is that in ur avatar? a clown thingy and a naked boy or girl?

[fwgx]

THAT'S MY GIRLFRIEND! :hang:















But you could open it with animation shop pro if you want ;)

[ctn|chrisw]

No the thingys that flash fast

[fwgx]

erm.....what? :confused:





;)

[ctn|chrisw]

This and this:

http://www.candt.net/1.gif http://www.candt.net/2.gif

[fwgx]

:blah:

[whiteflip]

in the past they have had "How big is your mp3 folder?" oh lol thats so funny. what do you guys think about starting a "how big is your porn folder" type thread? should it be started?

[dashrike]

can you password encrypt files and\or folders on windows 98?

[fwgx]

Download PGP from pgp.com I think.

[whiteflip]

Originally posted by dashrike
can you password encrypt files and\or folders on windows 98?

make a new folder in your windows\system\ directory and call it "security" or something.