Unfortunately, your unprotected files are easy targets for cybercriminals.Ĭonsidering this growing risk alongside our increasing reliance on electronic transfers, we need to take measures for better file security. Malicious hackers commonly use ransomware attacks to take data hostage until they get paid. Hard Drives: PM9A1 NVMe Samsung 2048GB 2048.Identify thefts increased by 68% in 2021, and the majority of complaints were fraud related. PSU: 1000W PSU Liquid Cooled Chassis - CyberPower 1500 UPSĬase: Alienware Mid-Tower Dark side of the MoonĬooling: Liquid Cooled - 3 fan - Top exhaust Screen Resolution: 1920 x 1080 x 60 hertz Monitor(s) Displays: Samsung 27' Curved C27F591 Sound Card: Realtek High Definition Audio Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 w/10GB GDDR5X mem OS: Multi-boot Windows 10/11 - RTM, RP, Beta, and InsiderĬPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900KF 3.50GHz, 3401 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processors System Manufacturer/Model Number: Alienware R12 Hope you can help and thank you.We cannot help as discussion of 'crack' tools that break password protection are against forum rules. I thought Windows 10 (or 7 for that matter) would do it, as long as you have the password of course and it is a Zip extension and not a Rar or other. I know you have to use third-party software (unless you are still using XP!) to create password protected Zips but don't know if you have to when unzipping. She is using WinRAR to create these Zips. However, I can open them as normal using the third-party 7-Zip program without issue.

I can't open them myself using Windows 10 whether the file is saved on my machine or directly from the email: The reason for asking is because a colleague of mine is sending these zip files to clients but some of clients are coming back to her saying they can't open them (I don't know if they're getting error messages or not) so she emailed me one of these files the same way she sends them to the clients, for me to test. I've been trying to find a definitive answer to this question on the internet but can't seem to find one!Ĭan you unzip a password protected Zip file in Windows 10 without using third-party software?

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