Did you know that you can create a zip file out of folders/files in Windows easily without any third party software? Windows has a built in zipping and unzipping tools so you don’t have to install WinZip in your computer.
If you right click a folder on your Windows Explorer, you’ll see a sub-menu called “Send To”. If you hover on it, you’ll see more options under the “Send To” sub-menu. Click on the Compressed (zipped) folder and Windows will automatically create a zip file out of your folder. You can do the same to files too. Simply selects all the files you want to zip/compressed and repeat the step above.
Do you know that you can easily add a password to the compressed zipped file on Windows too?
After you have the zipped file, double click on it to go inside the zip file and see its contents. You can use this method to extract only the files (and folders) that you want.
Then right click anywhere on the screen and select the “Add a Password”. You can also do this step by going to “File->Add a Password”.
Simply type in the password to your zipped file! Easy, isn’t it? Just make sure that you don’t forget the password to your zip file!
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Hey!
Nice article. Do you know if there’s any way to add a password non-zipped folder or perhaps a whole jump drive? Would I have to get some special encryption software for that or is there some easy way to do that that I’m too blind to notice? 
Unfortunately you have to use some third party applications to do it
I was looking for this information too, some time ago..
Very cool info Michael, thanks.
WOW it’s so easy! I’d seen it done but not known how till now, thankyou so much! It’s helpful for protecting files
Sometimes we tend to miss the easiest way of doing things and go to a more complicated path