• Microsoft releases free encrypted folder app
  July 10, 2006 – 8:53 PM
  Microsoft has released a free application that allows users to create an encrypted and password-protected folder. Microsoft Private Folder 1.0 works on Windows XP and Media Center Editions with Service Pack 2 and is meant to provide a consumer-level of protection.
• 'Private Folder' Powertoy still available, though Microsoft removed links
  July 17, 2006 – 3:54 PM
  In a baffling display of crossed wires, the Private Folder utility which Microsoft said late last Friday would be discontinued, after admins complained about its inability to be managed by group policy, actually remains available for download, though links to the file have evidently been removed. Was there a plan in mind when Microsoft released the software?
• Microsoft's Private Folder application may not be so private
  July 11, 2006 – 3:40 PM
  Yesterday we wrote about Microsoft's free Private Folder 1.0 application that encrypts and password protects a folder on a desktop. According to our research and the astute eyes of one of our readers, the contents of the folder may not be so private. Johnny Granlund emailed us saying that he was able to access the folder simply by rebooting into Safe Mode. However upon further inspection, we found that files inside of the folder were still encrypted.

• 02-14-2004 at 12:25 AM - no properties for folder