By Sophia | Last Updated
Nowadays, people often use their cell phones or cameras to record memorable moments in their lives, and these photos are usually copied to computers for safekeeping. To prevent others from seeing these photos, the best way is to put a password to protect them on computer. In this article, we will guide on how to put a password on photos in windows.
WinRAR is recognized as one of the most popular compression software in the world for its powerful compression features. But few people know about its other features, such as encrypting files with AES 256-bit encryption technology and supporting users to protect folders with passwords.
Step 1: First make sure you have WinRAR installed on your computer, then put the photos you need to encrypt into a folder, right-click on the folder and select "Add to archive".
Step 2: Click "Set password" in the general tab to proceed to the next step.
Step 3: Enter and confirm the password in the pop-up "archiving with password" window, then click "OK", the folders storing private photos will be successfully set with passwords and you will be asked to enter the password when you want to access them.
Although winRAR has the ability to encrypt files, it is limited to simple encryption and its encryption technology can be easily broken, for example：others can easily find its password in a few minutes by using RAR Password Genius . That's why we discuss the second method of how to put a password on your photos by using iSunshare SafeFile Genius here. iSunshare SafeFile Genius uses a powerful algorithm to protect your personal photos on your computer, even password cracking software also hard to recognize your encryption password, it can safely hide and protect your personal photos from others' access.
Step 1: After you have downloaded and installed iSunshare SafeFile Genius on your computer, launch it and click the "Encrypt" button on the software interface.
Step 2: Select the files or folders that need to be password protected. You can put all the photos you want to password protect in the same folder to encrypt.
Or you can choose individual photo file to encrypt.
Step 3: Set and confirm your password and click the "Encrypt" button to start encrypting your photos, within a few minutes the photos will be encrypted successfully.
The successfully encrypted files will be displayed in ".xep" format, and iSunshare SafeFile Genius will not automatically delete your unencrypted original files, you can delete them by your own choice. Please rest assured that the contents of the encrypted files will not be any different from the original files.
Step 4: If you want to access the password-protected folders, you just need to click the "Decrypt" button,then follow the tips to enter the password to confirm, and they will be displayed again.
Conclusion:
You can use these two methods guided above to put the password on your private photos. And to better protect the privacy of your personal photos, most users choose the method of iSunshare SafeFile Genius . Download it now and get 30 days free access, why not give it a try?
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