Step to Lock File in Win Rar & Win Zip

Here are the step by which you can lock file in win rar and win zip…You can do it simply using win rar..

Nearly all archives support giving password, including WinZip, 7-Zip and it’s not something unusual with Win Rar. However Win Rar is more comfortable to lock a file with password and if you are setting access like this, it is better you set the compression level to “Store”, which will make the compression and decompression faster, since the main endeavor here is to set a password.

1) Right click on the file for which you want the password to b put.
2) Click on “Add to Archive”.
3) Then go to Advanced tab.
4)Click on set password…choose your password.
5) Click ok.
6) A winrar file with your filename will be created.
7) Next you may delete the original file, since you have now compressed it with a password.Anyone trying to open the rar file won’t be able to open that, except he knows the password.

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