Folder locking program

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piehead

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Does anybody know of a completely free program that will prevent access to certain folders and/or drives, unless correct password is given when prompted?
 
What OS are you using, in XP I think you can do it by setting up security, right click on the folder>properties>Security tab, then click the user you want to disallow, click edit, and check deny on all the boxes.
Not sure if this is available on XP home though, also those instructions may not eb 100% as I am guessing by what it is on vista.

If you are on linux you can do ir by chmod'ing the folder, not sure exactly what it would be, but I think:
Code: 
chmod 700 /path/to/folder
Would work, as it would grant you [the owner] read/write/execute access to it, although deny everyone else

Lee :)
 
Yeah you can prevent other users on a XP Home machine from accessing your folders. However your file system must be NTFS.

I am FAT32 and that option is disabled for me were as my brother’s computer is NTFS and he can.
 
Thanks guys, but I was really looking for something that would prompt for a password that you could set on any folder :o. And although I have XP Home, I don't really need to stop users on the same computer, because the folder I'm sharing is over a wireless network.:) . Anymore ideas would be greatly appreciated.
 
This has been a real help to me as well I have been looking for the same sort of program on Windows XP Home, but never could find any that would do what I wanted!
 
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