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More info?)
You can always dir a zip file, just can't extracxt without a password. Same for Winzip and pkzip.
If it is a zip then there are password crackers but one needs to know some of the contents of the file, like a word in a doc or something.
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"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:eog0dQweFHA.640@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> By gosh, you can! (-:
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> Among others, I never knew that. I would have thought that the container
> would have been password protected - not the internal files.
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> Thanks for the information!
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> Richard Urban
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> If you knew as much as you thought you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
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> "David Candy" <.> wrote in message
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> You can password protect zip files in windows. Open a zip, File menu - Add
> Password
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> "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> COMPRESSED MAN wrote:
>>> I created a folder with several files in windows XP.
>>> I then compressed and PASSWORD protected the files within th folder.
>>> Now i cannot remember the password for the files.
>>> How do I get passed the password protection program? any ideas?
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>> Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:
>>> What program was used to password protect the data?
>>> Contact the source of the program for options.
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>> COMPRESSED MAN wrote:
>>> the compression tool that came with WinXP.
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>> Repeating my answer in the thread..
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>> Doubtful.
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>> While an original install of Windows XP can COMPRESS folders in two ways I
>> can think of (NTFS compression and a version of the ZIP compression) - I
>> do
>> not believe either way provides a method of passwording the resultant
>> folder/file. The first method is usually done through the disk cleanup
>> utility for a normal user.. they are unlikely to come across it in any
>> other
>> way. The second can be done by right-clicking on a folder or multiple
>> files
>> and selecting "Send To" -> "Compressed (zipped) Folder". If you did
>> anything other than that - yyouare not using a native Windows XP tool. It
>> does not matter if it came with your computer or not - it is not part of a
>> native Windows XP install and it would need to be identified to point you
>> to
>> the proper help.
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>> Simply repeat the steps you went through to compress/password this folder
>> with us - explain them one at a time. Perhaps we can point you in the
>> correct direction at least.
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>> Shenan Stanley
>> MS-MVP
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