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How to Add a Password to a RAR File

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Secure your RAR + Zip files by apply a password.

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RAR files are compressed archive files. It means they can contain hundreds of files in a single .rar file.

Because of that power, the RAR file size is smaller than the uncompressed files.

To make your archive files [RAR, ZIP, 7z, etc.] super secure, you just need to add encryption to them.

How to Add Password to RAR or Zip File

How to Add Password to RAR File

Create Password Protected + encrypted RAR with WinRAR

  1. First of all, install WinRAR on your windows pc,
  2. Now select the files and right-click on them.
  3. Now click on "Add to archive..."
  4. Then tap on "Set password..."
  5. Now type the password you want to apply to the RAR archive file.
  6. Finally, hit "OK" [Your encrypted RAR file will be saved in the same folder as the files you selected for it.]

Add Password to an Existing RAR file

If you have an existing .rar file and want to protect it using a password. Then here are the steps you can follow to put passwords on RAR files that have already been set up with archive utility programs.
  1. Open the existing compressed RAR [or zip] file with WinRAR
  2. Press "Alt+Q".
  3. Now Unselect all the file formats that are not RAR [or zip] from the "Archive types" window.
  4. Make sure the rar(1) [or zip] checkbox remains selected.
  5. Then click on the Compression... option to open the Set default compression options window.
  6. Tap on the "Set password..." button.
  7. Type a password for the archive file in the text box & click the "OK" button.
  8. Now tap on "Yes" to provide confirmation to encrypt the archive you want.
  9. Then press the "OK" option to set the password to the RAR file archive.
That's how you can set a password on a new or existing RAR file.

If you have a password protected RAR file and forget its password then I highly recommend you to read this post - Open Password Protected RAR without Password.

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