Windows 10: Need to password-protect a folder from the user but allow the .exe inside to run at startup

A friend has asked me to lock down most of his computer with a program called FocusMe to prevent him from being tempted to look at porn. It's a good idea, but he keeps finding loopholes, one of which is that if he's fast enough after restarting the computer he can navigate to the FocusMe folder and rename the app, preventing it from launching.

So, I need a way to prevent him from accessing the folder, while still allowing the program inside to run. Encrypting doesn't work, because it's linked to his user and lets him in without asking for a password. Creating an archive won't work either, because the program inside won't run at startup. Is there anything else I can do to solve this?

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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

 

How To: Password Protect a Folder in Network?

xp pro

Hi i have xp pro and i Unchecked the simple file sharing. Can you walk me through? what i want is to password protect Shared folders, so whenever from the others computers try to access those folders a Prompt message pop up asking for user name and password.

 

EXE in Startup folder not running


I have the same problem with MS works calendar reminder, the .exe is listed in the startup folder but at the time specified for the reminder it doesn't show the reminder pop-up.
Tbh this was also a problem under Win 7 & 8/8.1 but rectified it by copying the alarm/calendar reminder .exe to the startup folder, this doesn't work with 10.