![]() The program’s called 7-Zip and it’s free. If that’s not the case – and it’s probably not, sad to say – then you’ll need to actually install a third party program to accomplish the task. Add one, and you’ve just encrypted your archive. Not sure what motivated Microsoft to take out something so darn useful, particular compared to all the daft features it’s added in the evolution of the Windows OS, but we just get to live with the decisions, right?Īnyway, if you’re running an older version of Windows, check the Properties window once you’ve created an archive and if it has “password” you’re in luck. ![]() ![]() ![]() Used to be that creating an encrypted or password-protected Zip archive on a Windows machine was a breeze, but somewhere along the way on the journey from Windows XP to Win7 to Vista to 8 to Windows 10 that feature vanished. ![]()
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