Did you know that you can use WINRAR to protect your files with password (a mean to protect your files with password)

WinRAR is a helpful tool allows you to create and handle archive files. It completely supports rar and zip. What's more, it is also able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives. It consistently makes smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs.

In our daily work, create password protected RAR archives to against WinRAR files from others viewing is in great request. Usually, there are two proven techniques to create password protected RAR archives.

Option one: You can open the password-protected RAR archive and view the individual files name, but you need knowing the password to extract the all files.

Option two: You can't open the password-protected RAR archive and can’t even view the individual files name without the password.

Below we will show you how to create these two types of password-protected rar archives.

If you haven't installed it yet download it from http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm 
(choose the right version for your device)

 

Step 1: Open Winrar and click on Wizard.

 

Step 2: On the Wizard Choose the operation window, select Create a new archive and then click Next.

 

Step 3: There will pop-up a window, just select the files to be added to the archive and click OK.

 

Step 4: Here please input an archive name to create and click Next button.

 

Step 5: Now you can click Set Password button.

 

Step 6: Create Password Protected RAR Archives with Two Options

For Option one: Creating Password Protected RAR Archives have two ways, please follow the steps below.

1. The set password will be in asterisks, so you cannot see it, hence you will need enter the password that you want to set twice for confirmation. Then press OK. After that you will return to the Wizard Archive option window and just click Finish. Your password protected rar archive will be created in your Desktop.

 

2. The set password can be seen. For this please click Show password and enter the password you want to set only once. Then press OK. After that you will return to the Wizard Archive option window and just click Finish. Your password protected RAR archive will be created in your Desktop.

 

For Option two: Creating Password Protected RAR Archives by click Encrypt file names after you input the password twice.

 

Step 7: Open the Password Protected RAR Archives with Two Options

For Option one: The Password Protected RAR Archives can be opened. It will show an asterisk just beside the files indicating that it will need the password to extract the files.

 

For Option two: The Password Protected RAR Archives cannot be opened. It will need the password even to open the archive.