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Using XP's ZIP with Password To Send Sensitive Data

Disable or Enable XP's built-in zip support 

Using XP's ZIP with Password To Send Sensitive Data

To send the file, Please just Zip up the file and place a password to open it.  Please perform the following.

            1.  Go to the folder, Right-Click on the file, and select (Left-Click) on Compressed (Zipped) Folder, see Figure 1.

            2.  There will be a new file created with a .Zip suffix, see Figure 2.

            3.  Double-Click on the new .Zip file and select File à Add a password, see Figure 3 & Figure 4.

            4.  Make the password at least 8 digits containing numbers, letters, and not in the dictionary; press ENTER or Click OK.

            5.  Send the password and zip file in separate emails to your email recipient.

            6.  The email recipient will be prompted for the Password at the time of Extraction

            Please note that this is Windows XP instructions.

 Figure 1

Figure 2

Figure 3

 Figure 4

Disable or Enable XP's built-in zip support 

Here are the commands (start/run) that will disable or enable XP's built-in zip support (for example, those with WinZip installed may wish to disable this XP feature):

regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll

regsvr32 %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll

 dbloodworth@utm.edu -- This page was last modified on March 02, 2005 by CDB.

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