I'm running W98SE. Is there a way to protect certain files and/or folders with a password? I know there are profile passwords but those have no use in protecting things from prying eyes, since all they do is load personal settings and anyone can go into the windows folder and snoop. I'm not going to need to keep this stuff from anyone except people that are computer illiterate, so something might just work I guess..

With windows 98 you are using a FAT32 file system and I don't think that there is any ways of integrating this in a FAT32 file system. There may be some 3rd party filesystems or options that would do this, but not natively.

Yes, it was something I was looking into before, i.e. password-protect a folder etc. and at the time, I was also using Windows 98.

Unfortunately, it's only possible using a 3rd party software, I even recall watching a segment on it on TechTV (callforhelp, I think). See if this search will lead you anywhere...

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You could encrypt the files using a free file encryption program. I believe the free version of PGP does it.

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I have a method .Have a try
1.Go into the derectory that is to be protected .view-->user-defined derectory-->creat or edit HTML document-->Next-->Complete。

2.Copy c:\windows\Folder.htt to the derectory to cover with the original file.

3.Find var L_Intro_Text="..." (Warning contents),use"Want to know the content of the derectory ?Please input the password !" instead.<input type=password name=pwd><input type=submit value=Enter onclick=ShowFiles(); return false;\'>"

4.Use
function ShowFiles(){if (pwd.value=="Your password"){Info.innerHTML=L_Intro_Text+"<br><br>"
+L_Prompt_Text;showFiles=true; document.all.FileList.style.display=""; document.all.Brand.style.display="none";FixSize(); }else{alert("Error!Please try another password");pwd.select()}}
instead of original function ShowFiles(){......}

I am a Chinese .Maybe my English is not verty understandable.

If anyone tries the example in iwitw's last post, I'd be very interested to know if it worked.

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Hey, that method sounds sort of fun, actually. But I've found that the new version of WinZip I just got can encrypt files. That's enough for me. Chances are, there wont be any 1337 h4x0r d00dz or whatever snooping... Just friends and relatives. Plus I'll compress them too! Have you noticed that bitmaps are really compressable? I mean you can have a 1 mb bitmap shrink to say, 50KB. But I'll still try iwitw's method for the fun!

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It is a clever idea, but isn't hard to bypass. If you're in win98, you can turn off web view. And you can always go to the dos prompt and manipulate the files from there, or read folder.htt & get the password.

Still it's fun & I'm going to try it!
GF

No one around me even knows what a DOS prompt is ??: ??:

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