Locking out your computer making use of a password is a well known precaution to prevent unwanted people from accessing your PC. Instead of disabling other people from accessing your computer, wouldn’t you be better off to disable access only to a few of your personal folders that you don’t want others to access?

How do I lock out personal folders on Windows XP?

The process that involves locking out your folders on Windows XP is a slightly cranky one. Here is how you do it.

1. Decide upon the folder that you want to lock out.
2. Right click the folder and select Send To>Compressed Folder.



3. In case of a large file Windows might take some time to compress the selected folder.
4. Now open the compressed folder and click File>Add a Password.



5. A new window now pops up allowing you to set a password to lock out your personal folders. Set a password. This might again take some time in case of a large file.

   

6. You are now done locking out your folders! From now on anyone tries accessing the locked file, they will be prompted for a password.

Note: Delete the original folder of the compressed file as the password will be applied only to the compressed file.

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