Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions

I am looking for a Windows password script. What I would like it to do is the following:

1.) I right click a folder &/or file and it has the option to "attach a password" in the context menu. (created by the script.)

2.) After attaching the password to the folder &/or file, it will prompt for the password when trying to open the folder &/or file & or a file inside the protected folder.

3.) Last it will need to do is extend these protection settings so if it's copied to external media, hard drives, or other computers, it will still prompt.
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OK, some important notes:

- I don't want a programs that make you move the file/folder into a "vault or locker".

- I would like to attach a password to the file/folder with no further manipulation to the file/folder.

-"Winrar" is the closest thing to my longest most simple journey but it moves the file into a password protected archive. This would not be so bad if it didnt take forever to open just to populate (when you have multiple files in the archive.) This is very time consuming when you just want to open one file/folder.
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This is so simple yet I have failed to know end trying to find this. The mac has this built in I believe, but I have Windows. Joy for Windows .

And what has Windows to do with Unix ?

Moved to the Windows sub-forum.

This has nothing to do with unix obviously. Although I have failed to see the "windows sub forum", sarcasm is not necessary.

Thanks in advance to those who wish to help.

You cross-posted in an off-topic place intentionally, then? Hardly an improvement...

I'll put it plain and simple: Files don't work that way. The closest you'd get would be an encrypted locker, or some sort of self-extracting executable that demands a password first.

No I did not cross post anything intentionally. I am simply seeking help.

Files can work the way they are written, here is a quote from another forum site about the same topic and I would like to see a smart post somewhere on how to do what this says:

"The only way you're going to be able to have everything you want in a program, is for it to be supported in the filesystem, and with Windows you have FAT and NTFS as your choices. Neither of which support anything even approaching this. What you want SOUNDS simple, until you come across someone with a little actual programming experience, who will tell you this would require a pretty significant reworking of some major Windows components. You'd need to update the filesystem to support a specific kind of ACL, then work the file management APIs to support those as well. Then you have to wrap all that into a pretty GUI. And even then, any external devices would have to use the same filesystem, or you'd have to create a failsafe in the file manager APIs so that it will refuse to copy a file from one filesystem to another, which would greatly upset people who wouldn't be able to figure out why they can't copy some file or directory."

Which is it? It can't be both.

Anyway, he's saying you need to fundamentally modify the operating system. That's something you'd have to ask the people at microsoft to do. So my answer still applies.