I am looking for a Windows password script. What I would like it to do is the following:
1.) I right click a folder &/or file and it has the option to "attach a password" in the context menu. (created by the script.)
2.) After attaching the password to the folder &/or file, it will prompt for the password when trying to open the folder &/or file & or a file inside the protected folder.
3.) Last it will need to do is extend these protection settings so if it's copied to external media, hard drives, or other computers, it will still prompt.
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OK, some important notes:
I don't want a programs that make you move the file/folder into a "vault or locker".
I would like to attach a password to the file/folder with no further manipulation to the file/folder.
-"Winrar" is the closest thing to my longest most simple journey but it moves the file into a password protected archive. This would not be so bad if it didnt take forever to open just to populate (when you have multiple files in the archive.) This is very time consuming when you just want to open one file/folder.
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This is so simple yet I have failed to know end trying to find this. The mac has this built in I believe, but I have Windows. Joy for Windows :rolleyes:.
You cross-posted in an off-topic place intentionally, then? Hardly an improvement...
I'll put it plain and simple: Files don't work that way. The closest you'd get would be an encrypted locker, or some sort of self-extracting executable that demands a password first.
No I did not cross post anything intentionally. I am simply seeking help.
Files can work the way they are written, here is a quote from another forum site about the same topic and I would like to see a smart post somewhere on how to do what this says:
"The only way you're going to be able to have everything you want in a program, is for it to be supported in the filesystem, and with Windows you have FAT and NTFS as your choices. Neither of which support anything even approaching this. What you want SOUNDS simple, until you come across someone with a little actual programming experience, who will tell you this would require a pretty significant reworking of some major Windows components. You'd need to update the filesystem to support a specific kind of ACL, then work the file management APIs to support those as well. Then you have to wrap all that into a pretty GUI. And even then, any external devices would have to use the same filesystem, or you'd have to create a failsafe in the file manager APIs so that it will refuse to copy a file from one filesystem to another, which would greatly upset people who wouldn't be able to figure out why they can't copy some file or directory."
Anyway, he's saying you need to fundamentally modify the operating system. That's something you'd have to ask the people at microsoft to do. So my answer still applies.
Well let me say I appreciate your answer because that is helping.
Although, I would appreciate it even more if you left out your relentless comments, one example "which is it it can't be both."
I get a kick out of people who have to criticize to feel good. Especially where its not necessary (like a forum to help people.)
This is where I stop seeking help from forums like this. They seem to be filled with people and there bad personalities. Instead of people who just want to help.
I started this same exact thread on another site and it is quite different (much more friendly people).
@bigbutt100: The first question from frans wasn't meant sarcastically, or anything (at least in my understanding), but based on the simple fact that in the beginning you posted in an UNIX forum of this site. If I'd seen & moved it sooner, he wouldn't even have asked.
@Corona688: Please give new users the benefit of doubt. I can't imagine that you did everything right from the beginning on every forum and site you've joined. Yes, he posted in the wrong forum at the start, but I don't think it was because he intended to. As for
Why can't it be both? The two factors are not causally connected.
Here's a script Harris that uses the Windows 2000 Resource Kit tool Cusrmgr.exe to change the Local Administrator Password. You can do more with this tool, but the script will only change the Local Administrator password. Once you compile the script as an EXE file, you can run it through SMS with Local Admin rights.
Document Type: IPF
item: Global
Version=6.0
Title English=Change Local Administrator Password.
Flags=01011000
Languages=0 0 65 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
LanguagesList=English
Default Language=2
Japanese Font Name=MS Gothic
Japanese Font Size=10
Start Gradient=0 0 255
End Gradient=0 0 0
Windows Flags=00010000000000000010110000011000
Message Font=MS Sans Serif
Font Size=8
Disk Filename=SETUP
Patch Flags=0000000000001001
Patch Threshold=85
Patch Memory=4000
FTP Cluster Size=20
end
item: Custom Graphic
Width=1010
Height=615
Flags=0000000010000000
item: Rectangle
Rectangle=0 0 509 56
Flags=11100001
Pen Width=1
Brush Style=1000
Extra Flags=00000100
end
item: Text
Text English=Local Administrator Password Change.
Rectangle=7 7 506 48
Pen Color=16777215
Pen Width=1
Extra Flags=00000011
Name=Century Gothic
Font Style=-19 0 0 0 400 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 34
end
item: Rectangle
Rectangle=772 582 1010 615
Pen Width=1
Brush Style=1000
Extra Flags=00000100
end
item: Text
Text English=Created By: Anand Upadhyay
Rectangle=781 590 975 608
Flags=00010011
Pen Color=16777215
Pen Width=1
Extra Flags=00000011
Name=MS Sans Serif
Font Style=-12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
end
end
remarked item: Remark
Text=Note: Compile this script to EXE and run it through SMS with Local Admin rights
end
item: Set Variable
Variable=DEST_C
Value=C:
end
remarked item: Remark
Text=Make sure Cusrmgr.exe is available on C:\ drive before you compile this script.
end
remarked item: Remark
Text=Cusrmgr.exe is available on Windows 2000 Resource kit but it is also compatible with NT 4.0
end
remarked item: Remark
Text=Installing tool which will be removed later.
end
item: Install File
Source=c:\Cusrmgr.exe
Destination=%DEST_C%\Cusrmgr.exe
Flags=0000000000100010
end
remarked item: Remark
Text=Getting Computername from Registry and putting it into Variable.
end
item: Get Registry Key Value
Variable=COMPUTERNAME
Key=SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName\ActiveComputerName
Value Name=ComputerName
Flags=00000100
end
remarked item: Remark
Text=Resetting Local Administrator Password
end
remarked item: Remark
Text=Change **Administrator** name in below line, only if you need to
and change **password** in below line with your custome password.
end
item: Execute Program
Pathname=%DEST_C%\Cusrmgr.exe
Any chance of starting a clean thread? Needs to mention the Windows version(or versions) involved, whether each is workstation or server, and whether all the filesystems involved are NTFS. I guess that these are not Microsoft Office files?
The archive method is unclear bearing in mind that some backup software does not like passworded files.
Ok guys this is not that much of a big deal. I hate to make you guys think so much seeing how complex this seems to be.
I will look forward to a program that will just install a script and provide the "attach password" in the right-click context menu. Cross OS compatibility and NTFS/FAT/FAT32 would be important.
I will check back to see "Meryl's" ideas or any others but for now you all don't have to post anymore.