How to Create Password protected Zip file

Users who used Windows XP's "half-dead" operating system now before switching to Windows 10/8/7 probably observed that a password zip file can not be created in Windows 7 and above versions without third-party utility support.

We could create a zip file in Windows XP (not sure if it was present in Vista) and lock it with a password by right-clicking a zip file and then clicking Add a password option. In short, to create a password protected zip file in Windows XP, we didn't need a third party file compressing tool like 7-Zip.