How To Encrypt Files And Folders In Windows 7 / VISTA

Encryption is a method to protect your files from unauthorized access.Windows 7 has inbuilt Encryption capabilities so that you don’t have spend extra money on these type of softwares.File encryption is becoming more and more important these days. 

follow these steps:

1.Right click on the folder you want to encrypt and then click on properties.

2.In the properties dialog click on Advanced under the general tab.

3.After clicking on advanced you will see a prompt,check the box in the prompt which says Encrypt Contents To Secure Data

4.If your trying to encrypt a folder you will see another prompt asking you whether you would like to encrypt subfolder also.Click on OK.

5.Now your files will be encrypted.

6.Your Encrypted files and folders names will turn into green colour which indicates that the these files have been encrypted.