Encrypting Folders Guide

This method supports AES-256 Encryption and is compatible with most common file compression technologies.

7-Zip is required for both encrypting the folder and extracting the folder

Encrypting

• Right click the folder that needs encrypted and select Show more options

• Navigate to 7-Zip, then select the Add to archive… option

• The default file extension for 7-Zip is .7z, however you can change this to .tar, .wim, or .zip if needed

• In the bottom right Encryption section, enter the password that you wish to encrypt the folder with
• Make sure that AES-256 is the selected encryption method
• Select the Encrypt file names option

• Select Ok

Extracting

• Right click the encrypted folder and select Show more options

• Navigate to 7-Zip
• From here, you can select the Open archive option to view the contents of the folder, and then extract
• Alternatively, you can choose Extract files… to choose where to extract the folder, or Extract Here to extract the folder in the same location the encrypted folder is in

• Enter the password when prompted