Windows 10: How do I password protect a folder in Windows 10

hi all


I am sending my laptop for repair and want to keep nosy eyes from some documents on my laptop that contain personal info eg statements, letters, etc.


Can I password protect a folder so that the repair shop can't see the documents?

I googled and found folders/properties/advanced, then tick encrypt to secure data. But that box is greyed out so I can't do that.


And googling that comes with delving into deep dark corners of the registry I'm not tec savvy and seems to indicate it is only viewable to my windows account. Is that right? So the repairers would still be able to see it.


If its not straight forward to do it that way, any suggestions? Basically the objective is to stop the laptop repairer from seeing files they don't need to see. I thought the way to do that was password protect a folder, but maybe not?

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Private folders encrypted and password protected folders

Im posting this because i've been looking for a free tool like this sense XP thought people should know about it *Toast :toast:

Windows 7 when combined with Pismo get’s an incredible feature of creating password protected folders ( *.pfo ) which they call as Private Folders. It is just like any other folder to which you can add any folder and do any operation but not password protections just comes out of the box in Windows 7.

Updated :

To create a private folder, you need to make a right click, select new and then private folders




How to create private folder in windows 7




To re-lock right click unmount

Windows 7
private folders

Here are the features which will interest you :

* Password protection.
* Mount visibility to owner or entire users group.
* In case you make it available to entire user group, you get option to make it available as network drive
* Type of access to users , Read or Read and Write

Private folders are just incredible way to share private data with set of people you want. This is what makes private folders rock. Its just not securing your data but also sharing data privately with others. You can download Pismo Private Folder from here

 

Password protecting Folders

I am building a machine for my friend and he was asking me to create folders and password protect it. How do I do in XP pro? Is there a built in tool or should I rely on third party tool? if so anything free out there?

Thanks for the help.

*Toast :toast:

 

How To: Password Protect a Folder in Network?

Hi all I have a question for you all Networking Expert out there. Im running a small networking at my house. this Network consist of 3 computers : My computer, My sister's and My mom's. My computer act as a Network Harddrive, I share a lot of Files in my computer. Sometimes my sister like to pull over some files from my computer, but there are some folders where i dont like her to open. Im thinking to Password Protect a certain folders, so whenever she or my mom open those certain folders a pop up will show up asking for password (im thinking to password protect because sometimes I need to able to access those folders from either my mom's or sister's computer) Is there anyway to do this? third party Program? all computers in my network running Windows XP.