Windows 10: Guest/visitor account, block access to folders on partition D:/

So tomorrow we're leaving on vacation for a month and we're pretty much completly rented out our apartment on airbnb for that time. I am preparing my PC with guest/visitor account so the guests can use the PC to look something up on the internet or watch movie and play some music from my music/video folders. I always have 2 partitions on windows, C:/ (on SSD) for windows/apps/games and D:/ for data. Its the first thing I do after fresh install is move all document/picture/video/music folder location to my D:/ partition which on my 2 TB Harddisk.

So now I made this visitor account using the elevate prompt with this guide:
Guest Account - Add in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Tutorials

Yet in that visitor I still have access to all folders on D:/ partition, including documents/pictures folders. They can have access (like I said) to downloads, video and music folder. But not to my pictures and document folders. How do disable access to those folders?





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An unexpected account during log in but can't see/delete that from user account

This happens because you renamed the Guest account to "Visitor". "Guest" is the real account name, "Visitor" is the nickname.

 

Can I turn the guest account back on? How? Can't find the button!

This is as close as you are likely to get to the Guest a/c of old, and it's worked for me on several Win 10 devices:-

Firstly, open an elevated command prompt by going to Start menu/All Programs/Windows System, right-click Command Prompt, select More, select Run as administrator, then;

• Enter "net user Visitor /add /active:yes" (ignore quotes) to create a new account. You can replace “Visitor” with whatever name you wish, but be sure to change it for every command on this list. “Guest” is reserved by the Windows system.
• Enter "net user Visitor *" (ignore quotes) to create a password for the account.
• Press Enter key twice to create a blank password.
• Enter "net localgroup users Visitor /delete" (ignore quotes) to remove Visitor from the regular Users group.
• Enter "net localgroup guests Visitor /add" (ignore quotes) to add Visitor to the guests user group.

You now you have a brand new "guest" account! This account will have the same privileges as the old guest accounts, but, I am told, that it does not wipe settings and local files on logout.

(Super User via Laptop Mag gratefully acknowledged)

 

Surely your Air B&B guests have their own computer?
What version of Windows 10 do you have? Home or Pro? If you have Pro, you can use Gpedit (Group Policy Editor) to restrict the D: drive. How To Restrict Access To Drives In My Computer In Windows

 

So when you restrict access to drives, it is for the whole drive. Ok that's fine, no movies/music for airbnb'rs. But how can I disable access to the D:/ partition only for visitor account? I can only access the group policy editor when I am logged in as administrator (under my own username), and now my own user cannot access D:/ anymore unless I change it back again. For the time being its ok, because I wont be home now anyway, but is there a way to only block it for the visitor account?