One doesn't. A decision was made to remove that feature, so the only option
you have is to use a third party program to fulfill that requirement. I
don't disagree that it's inconvenient, but that's the only answer that there
is.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts
http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
"Gabriel Simmons" <GabrielSimmons@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:1D158FE5-7A7B-4B05-A4BF-DD84131862B3@microsoft.com...
> How is an administrator supposed to submit virus samples to Virus
> Protection
> companies without having to use third party software then?
>
> "Michael" wrote:
>
>> Vista no longer password protects its zip files (it will unzip a password
>> protected zip however).
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>> "Gabriel Simmons" <GabrielSimmons@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message news:CB5A489C-46FF-4FDD-A786-4EA3C403634F@microsoft.com...
>> > How does one password protect a compressed zip file in Windows Vista?
>> > This was an option in Windows XP, but now it seems to be missing from
>> > Windows Vista options......
>>
>>