Password Protecting Folders in Windows XP

Password Protecting Folders in Windows XP

  Windows XP users can indeed password protect folders. I will do my best to methodically explain how to do so:

1. Highlight the folder you want to make password protected (or private);

2. Right click your mouse or laptop button and click “Properties”;

3. Click the “Sharing” tab;

4. Check the box marked “Make This Folder Private”;

Once you click that box “Make This Folder Private” the below message should appear:

“You do not currently have a password on your user account. Even though you made this folder private, anyone can login as you and access the folder”

It will then ask “Do you want to create a password for yourself?”

Click “Yes”, enter a password (make sure you write it down so it is not forgotten), click “Ok” and the folder then should be protected…