Microsoft® Windows 7 Unleashed

Chapter 17. Securing the File System

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• Setting Security Permissions on Files and Folders

• Encrypting Files and Folders

• Encrypting a Disk with BitLocker

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	I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
	--Elayne Boosler

With the exception of “on-the-fly” items, such as typed passwords and security keys, most of the information we want to keep out of the wrong hands resides in a file somewhere. It might be salary numbers in a spreadsheet, private financial info in a personal finance program data file, or sensitive company secrets in a word processing document. Whatever the ...