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Originally posted by MenthiX
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Menthix said that the option I was talking about is above that greyed out option, he didn't say it is that option.
Well, i did actually... the topicstarter asked for file encryption, what you describe just locks out other user accounts.
yes and no
What I described will be the same as encrypting a folder. The result is exactly (well almost) the same: other user will not have access to the map/files.
If you make a map "personal", only you (who have logged in to Windows) will be able to access the maps and files within this "personal" map. Other Windows XP user will not be able to access it.
This option is only available for maps in your own user profile (thus:
My Documents, Desktop, Start Menu, Favorites and their submaps)
To make a submap or file available to other Windows users, you can drag a submap and/or file to the Shared map (or disable the option).
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The
"Encrypting File System" option (only available in Pro) does more than simply locking other Windows user out of the map... It is not a real option like other settings; it is a special file attribute, like you have read-only, archive, system, etc...
When a file or map has that special file/map attribute, the file or map will be coded using a special scheme. Only he who set the attribute will be able to decode the file or map again.
Since this is an attribute, and not an option, it is only applicable to 1 file or 1 map at the time (though you can set it for multiple files at the same time of course, just like all the other file attributes), unlike the
"personalise map" option which goes for all submaps and files inside the personal directory.
This option is only available in Windows XP Pro and if you have the NTFS file system on your hard disk. If so, every file and map on your HDD can have this special attribute, thus not only the ones of your own user profile.
Also note that coded files or maps like that can not be compressed using that other option I talked about (option 2 in my previous reply).
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To know more about certain options in Windows, you can always right click on them and choose
"what's this?".
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