How to Create Multiple User Accounts?

How to Protect files with multiple Windows User Accounts?

Folder Lock allows you to create unlimited user accounts so that different users with different passwords have their own lockers and security. To install for more users, you can run the program in that particular windows user account and Folder Lock will create a different Locker, in My Documents folder instead of Folder Lock application path. To create a user account in Windows, make sure you are running as administrator and then click Start > Control Panel > User Accounts and add one more Windows User Account that you wish to utilize for another user. Whenever this user runs Folder Lock, he will be asked his own personal password without having to know the administrator password of Folder Lock. This way, you can add as many users as you want to use the program with their own personal accounts, passwords and personal locker locations. There is no need for different installs of the program, the same installed version that works for one user will work differently for another user and all its settings will be saved differently including the location of the Locker.

How to use it for multiple users with different passwords on a single Windows User Account?

We do not recommend this method but the one given above. If, however you wish to use multiple user accounts on a single Windows User Account. You can have multiple passwords for different users by following this procedure. Install the program in C:\Folder Lock1 once setup is complete (do not launch the program, uncheck it, or if you have lauched the program, then don't set a password yet.) now run the setup again to install the program in C:\Folder Lock2 Once you've installed the program on two different locations like this. Go to C:\Folder Lock1 and run the Folder Lock.exe Then set a password, lets say "pass1" and then exit the program once the password has been set.

After that go to C:\Folder Lock2 and again run the Folder Lock.exe from this location. Now the program will ask you to enter password instead of showing you the set a password screen. So don't get confused, enter "pass1" (which was the last password used) in it and then click okay. After that click the options button and click "Change Password" and change the password to "pass2", once password is changed, exit the program.

Now Folder Lock1 and Folder Lock2 will use two different passwords. Folder Lock1 will accept "pass1" and Folder Lock2 will accept "pass2" everytime. which means Folder Lock1 will not open its locker folder "pass2" and vise versa.

Similarily, if you install Folder Lock again by running the setup to C:\Folder Lock3 and run the Folder Lock.exe from this program path, the program will ask you the last password you set. In our case, the last password was "pass2" So enter "pass2" and then again go to options and click change password and chnage the password to "pass3"

Instead of having 'Folder Lock1', 'Folder Lock2' etc. as your main folders, you can have the users' names as the parent folders, to differenciate between each other.

This is the way you can have unlimited amount of Lockers with different passwords.



See also:
How secure are my files?
How to protect files on other drives like D: E: F: etc. not only C:?
How it lock files on a USB Flash Drive, CD-RW or floppy disks?
Are these files undeletable also?
Can protected files be found in 'search for files and folders?'
How many bits of encryption are used? Is it secure?
Is it possible to Encrypt some files and Lock the others?
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