How to Password-protect Your Folder
Lock my Folder is a new folder password protected software that has a user-friendly interface. This guide will guide you through the entire process of protect your file/folder/disk with a password.
Lock My Folder interface
How to Use
- Start Lock My Folder by clicking the icon on your desktop or in your start menu.
- A dialogue box will appear to ask for a password,
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for the first time you run Lock My Folder, you need to in put a password, which can be changed in the setting menu later, and next time Lock My Folder can only be started with the password.
- or you need to input the password to run Lock My Folder.
Add file
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- Click this button to add a file/files that you want to lock.
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Add folder
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- Click this button to add a folder/folders that you want to lock.
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Add disk |
- Click this button to add a disk/disks that you want to lock.
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Lock all
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- Lock all the items you added in the list below.
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Unlock all |
- Unlock all the items in the list below.
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- You can right click your mouse on the item in the list below to lock/unlock only the selected items
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Settings |
- Enable or Disable
- Unlock all item when starting
- Clue to lock when close
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Exit |
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For users with FAT/FAT32 file systems
Lock My Folder can NOT lock items on FAT/FAT32 file system. We support NTFS currently, if you now use FAT/FAT32 file system, you can convert it to NTFS easily and safely.
What is NTFS?
NTFS is a high-performance and self-healing file system proprietary to Windows XP 2000 NT, which supports file-level security, compression and auditing. It also supports large volumes and powerful storage solution.
How to convert FAT/FAT32 to NTFS?
If you are using Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, you can follow the instruction to convert your file system to NTFS.
start->run->cmd
type:
CONVERT volume /FS:NTFS [/V] [/CvtArea:filename] [/NoSecurity] [/X]
eg. convert C: /fs:NTFS
you may type convert /? for help first.
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