Protecting your Folder from Unauthorized User

Hi all,
                Perhaps all might be need to safeguard certain confidential matters in their computers. And almost plenty of softwares are available in the market to serve you. Some might be freeware and someother might demand you to pay for their softwares. Why not make use of Disk Operating System for this command?(which is almost inbuilt in IBM based computers). Let me describe how to safeguard your folder view from unauthorised users. Suppose you need to keep the folder ‘Confidential’ in the ‘D’ drive to be unviewable to others. So just go for the command prompt(Start->Run->command) and proceed upto the parent directory of the folder you need to protect for. Type the following command : ‘attrib “<folder name>” +R +A +S +H’ (ie., attrib confidential +R +A +S +H). Go and check for the folder ‘Confidential’ and you could not find it. You can check in the command prompt too. And to renew this folder just type again: attrib “<folder name>” -R -A -S -H.

                  Let me discuss on the pros and cons of making use of it.

pros: 

• You can protect the folder from unauthorised access

• You could not able to delete the folder unless remove the attribute constraint

cons:     

• Though folder name in not avail in the list of command prompt, when just using the Tab key to search for folder in command prompt, it would display it.

• When you forget the protected folder, you could not able to predict the folder from the list of folders on pressing TAB key of Change Directory (CD) in command prompt

                                      Hope the above post will be helpful to you.

Comments are Welcomed…!