WinRAR password protection tips: a practical way to automatically add passwords

Question: How to encrypt compressed files using WinRAR? Quick explanation: WinRAR not only decompresses files, it also protects your files by setting a password in the archive. Introduction: This article is carefully written by PHP editor Banana. It will introduce in detail how to encrypt compressed files in WinRAR to protect your sensitive data.

In the password function, WinRAR's "Automatically add password" function is a convenient security setting option, which can automatically add password protection to the file when creating the compressed file without having to enter the password manually. This feature is particularly suitable for scenarios where encrypted compressed files need to be created frequently. How to use the automatic password adding function?

Open the WinRAR software, and then click [Settings] in the [Options] list of the menu tab.

After the [Settings] dialog box pops up, click [Create Default Configuration] in the menu tab [Compression] interface.

After the [Set Default Compression Options] dialog box pops up, click the [Set Password] option. When the dialog box pops up again, enter the password you want to set in the password field, and then click [OK].

A prompt dialog box will pop up, click [Save Anyway], and then click [OK] in the remaining dialog boxes, and WinRAR's "Automatically Add Password" will be set.

After the setup is complete, when you use WinRAR to create any compressed file, just follow the usual steps, select the files or folders you want to compress, and add them to the compressed file. WinRAR will automatically apply the originally preset password to protect the contents of the compressed file.

How to cancel the automatic password adding function?

If you do not need to automatically add a password every time you compress a file, you can also cancel this function.

Follow the operation path set previously, after opening WinRAR, click the menu tab [Options]-[Settings], then click [Compression]-[Create default configuration], [Set default compression options]-[Set password], and a pop-up will appear. After the [Enter Password] dialog box, select the password field, press the "Enter" key on the keyboard, change it to an empty password, and then click [OK], WinRAR's "Automatically Add Password" function will be cancelled.

Notes

After the "Automatically add password" function of WinRAR is cancelled, the password that was originally compressed and automatically added through this function still exists.

If you want to cancel the password of these compressed files, you can only decompress the file with the password and then compress it into a compressed file without a password.

Of course, if you accidentally forget the password, canceling the "Automatically add password" function of WinRAR will not remove the password.

In this case, we need to use other tools to solve the problem.

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