Put a password on a memory stick

is there a way to secure a memory stick by putting a password on it?

There are lots of ways to secure data on the stick, but almost all of them would require some 3rd party software.

If you don't require anything more than basic password protection, you could create a passworded zip file and use that. Recent versions of windows have native support for this, so it would be easy to do .

If you want something much more secure then take a look at True Crypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/) - it's a really good (free!) application which would suit this purpose.

hmmm i kinda thought there would be 3rd party software to do it but i just wondered if there was a windows own option, bit silly there isn't really

how do i ?

Put the password in a .txt file with Notepad. Then use TrueCrypt to encrypt the .txt file.

I just decided to use truecrypt its the easy to use, i just encrypted the stick =)

Cool...and that would be another great way to do it.

wait i thought it was going to put a password on it but it hasn't im not too sure what exactly it has done but i cant find out how in the user guide and i cba to trawl through it ... all i really wanna do is put a password on a word document

okay i have found another forum thread advising me to use truecrypt again ¬_¬ but as it doesn't seem to come up with a box you need to enter a password into, the thread also says "why not just password protect individual folders in the usual way" can someone tell me what this "usual way" is?

i have tried truecrypt a few times and i dunno why it aint working =/

i'm going to try using "pen protect"

http://www.penprotect.com/download.htm

wish me luck ;]