how do totally hide files on your computer. How do you put passwords on files and applications,?

Answer 1

U can do it with winzip and 7 zip file manager software. Or u can hide the folder by clicking on folder option. There u will find d option of hiding the selected folder.

Answer 2

Documents such as Word Documents and Excel files such as spread sheets and graphs and stuff can be password protected

Click "Save As". When the save as dialog box opens, click "Options". On the "Password to open" line enter the password you want.
Caution, be sure you don't forget your password or your work is lost forever, or until you remember your password.

You can remove this password any time you want, but you first need to know the password to get in. If you want to change the PW, use the "Password to modify" line.

Another option (you probably DON'T want this) is to make your file available for reading only and NO ONE can change your file. I do this all the time at work so I can control information while keeping it available.

One final point, the file or document can be deleted without using a password. If someone wants to be malicious they could remove things you block from them. So make a backup and keep it someplace no one would think to look. I hide stuff in my My E-Books file, nobody ever looks there. Really, does ANYONE have anything in that file?

Answer 3

You can't completely hide files on your computer, but if you have Windows XP you just click on hide files and folders, but of course you can always click that same button and unhide them extremely easily. Another thing you might do is, if your hard drive is formatted with the NTFS you can right click a folder, click security and sharing button, then click on the security tab. You can then deny other users permission to change, view, or execute a file. But you can't put passwords on folders or applications. And, by the way if you don't see the security tab go to Tools, folder options, then the view tab, then unclick use simple file sharing.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

To hide the files you must select them and right click the file(s) and select properties, from there you can hide the file, after it is hidden open my computer and from Tools>Folder options > view select do not show hidden files and folders.
Use the program Folder Guard (http://www.download.com) to put password in folders.

Answer 6

Hiding - right click on file/folder > properties > Sharing > Hidden

Answer 7

if you're hiding files on a shared computer, give administrative rights to only yourself.
in search, you can find hidden files - there's a "search hidden files" box to check.
also, there is software to download and find passwords to access hidden files.
accessing hidden files can also be done via your computer's bios.
s.o.l.

Answer 8

use a hidden folder and put everything there and use compressed zipped folders just right click ur desktop and it say new and then it says compressed folder and then u go to file and add password and for site just block all the sites and u will have ur password to go in.

Answer 9

hi bud, there's a loose piece of software noted as Truecrypt, it creates encrypted volumes that you'll be able to position all of your information in. Its probability-free and its loose!! it encrypts to the same criteria the Federal Gov. calls for. the in straightforward words down area is in case you ignore your password there is not any way of recuperating each and every of the information interior the quantity so make a password you wont ignore!

Answer 10

I think it has to be a compressed folder to have a password

or there might be some 3rd party software like at download.com that can do that