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Killswitch
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Posted: 4th Feb 2004 23:24
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Basicly I have a folder full of scripts for a flash series my friends and are starting, anyway I want to password protect a folder so I don't have to bother making a password for each document I have. How can it be done? Or can it be done?

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Posted: 4th Feb 2004 23:26
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I am under the impression it can be done but it depends on the os, and I could be wrong altogether.

Hey, by the way, can you give me a link to where you posted the skull I made for you?

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Ian T
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Right click- properties- security. You can at least restrict it to certain users and probaly password it too.

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Killswitch
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Posted: 4th Feb 2004 23:28
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Im using win 98, and as for the skull it's not up yet but it will be on:

www.gotharmy.uk.tt (on the portal page) theres nothing there at the moment, its been sidetracked by this flash stuff.

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Posted: 4th Feb 2004 23:31 Edited at: 4th Feb 2004 23:32
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thanks for the link.

I don't think 98 is gonna let you do what you want natively but maybe there is a third party program - search the net.

edit: be aware that programs like this are pretty dangerous and can screw up your system. they hook into every little os event and try to blend in seemlessly. somethimes they do, sometimes they don't. consider yourself warned.

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dark coder
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Posted: 5th Feb 2004 00:30
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im on 98 and if i right click/properties and select sharing i can add a full access password

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Posted: 5th Feb 2004 00:59 Edited at: 5th Feb 2004 01:00
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...but I bet you can cancel the login screen at startup, and get access to it.

Or boot to DOS (yes, DOS, the real thing!) and get access.

Or create a new command kernel from within Windows.

...and the list goes on.

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what does sharing have to do with other users using the folder in win 98? Or am I misunderstanding the original post (which wouldn't be unheard of, as I did win the award for Loss of Reading Comprehension Skills Over time)

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Phaelax
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Posted: 5th Feb 2004 02:06
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I'm not sure about password security, but encryption security is only on NTFS 5 right now. NTFS 4 might have passwords for individual folders.

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Ian T
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BatVink-- no password protection there is foolproof unless the contents of the folder would actually be encrypted and stored in a file, which Windows dosen't have and I doubt could be added into it via a 3rd party program. However password protection would keep out little brothers .

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Great Knight
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you can always use winzip. That has password protection with it. Put all your files in there uncompress and just use that like a folder, but with a password on it.

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Quote: "im on 98 and if i right click/properties and select sharing i can add a full access password"


This only applies to users accessing via the network. To give you an idea of how useless W98 security is, to logon as another user:

- Cancel at the login prompt
- Go to the C:\Windows folder and delete the username.pwl file
- Login again, enter a new password - and you're in.

This won't work when trying to access another network location as the network access control relies on the original password, but you can still log on locally as them.


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Ian T
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I thought myself a master hacker when I found out that you could 'cancel' past the windows 95 login screen on my older brother's computer, back when I was 9 or so

Those were the days...

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Can you cancel WinXP and if you can't why do they have the cancel button?


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Posted: 5th Feb 2004 16:21 Edited at: 5th Feb 2004 16:22
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I looked into this a while back...leemee see now...

*switches to google*

Hmm...i can't find it...

But i remember vaguely what it was. You can customise the folder, then manualy edit the customisation document, then change it by adding some VB script of something that prompted for a password. If i remember right it only worked on windows 98, but i can't find it because of all the junk that search engines spew out these days. Sorry.

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