Quickbooks does not require a password to protect data files. Users here are crystal clear that we can protect our user files without QB password nonsense. Why are you lying? Why won't you just be honest and actually listen to your users. Instead of using your time and resources to insult us and be passive-aggressively obtuse, why can't you instead listen to and acknowledge what we need? Does it make you feel powerful to go out of your way to make using QB even more insulting and frustrating? Since you're obviously not interested in helping, then why are you even here?