You see, many years ago I found a program on my school that locked folders/files and asked for a password to access them, I'm looking for a program that does this because, well, I'm having a trouble with some people searching my stuff on my computer, so I kinda want privacy and I want to lock some folders with passwords.

 

Thanks :3

Well, if you don't really mind it not being a folder, but a file which you can mount into a partition, I suggest truecrypt. It can be used on any computer and carried with you on a flash drive.

Password protected .rar archive?

At my school they do the same, except they use a Windows server with an account for every user. Users have personal folders on the server that have passwords. I haven't seen anything foreign (non-Microsoft) being used to password-protect folders, though.

Na, I'm not looking for .rars as I look at the archives sometimes (They're conversation logs and such)

I highly doubt you are going to get a program like this without forking out some amount cash. Here are some options for you, they are 25 use and 35 use trials respectivley Easy Private Disk and Easy File Encryption.

I found this while looking around: Folder Lock, it has a good rating by WoT users.

cls

@ECHO OFF

title Folder Locker

if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK

if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER

:CONFIRM

echo Are you sure u want to Lock the folder(Y/N)

set/p "cho=>"

if %cho%==Y goto LOCK

if %cho%==y goto LOCK

if %cho%==n goto END

if %cho%==N goto END

echo Invalid choice.

goto CONFIRM

:LOCK

ren Locker "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

echo Folder locked

goto End

:UNLOCK

echo Enter password to Unlock folder

set/p "pass=>"

if NOT %pass%==ENTER PASSWORD HERE goto FAIL

attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Locker

echo Folder Unlocked successfully

goto End

:FAIL

echo Invalid password

goto end

:MDLOCKER

md Locker

echo Locker created successfully

goto End

:End

 

#1 - Copy & paste the above code in to notepad.

#2 - In the above code, in red, where it says 'ENTER PASSWORD HERE'... simply type whatever you want your password to be.

#3 - Save the file as whatever name you want .BAT (for example: folderlocker.bat) instead of .TXT .

#4 - Double click the .BAT file you just saved and you'll get a cmd prompt asking for your password. This will open a new 'Locker' folder.

#5 - Add, remove, check, edit, etc. whatever it is you want to in this folder. When you're done & want to lock it back up, just double click the .BAT file again and hit "Y".

 

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but it's simple and quick without the need for downloading a program.

If nothing else, you could always just try to make them hidden folders, then Show Hidden Files when you want them, and Hide them when you don't.