Windows 10: Question about default Windows password protect folder feature;

Hey guys, I have a security question, and before I ask it I just want to emphasize that I'm looking to use the simplest, most accessible, user friendly solution possible that involves no third party software unless the Windows option is truly considered by the consensus to be absolute garbage with simple workarounds.

So, I work in the kind of field where being killed is a legitimate hazard, and will be undertaking a contract beginning in January for six months which has a higher than average chance of that happening. I am planning to leave my personal laptop in the care of my mother, as a few years ago I had a water damage incident with a storage company while away on work which has left me shy about keeping important electronics with them.

Now, my mother is kinda nosey, and on said computer I have copies of months and months of emails and scanned physical letters between myself and my ex wife, discussing a lot of very personal things - not just talking tiddy pics I mean trauma dumping each other and sharing a lot of very private memories and feelings, which are seemingly leading us to want to try the relationship again when I get back. These are not things that I want my mother to be able to read, as she has the kind of personality to start involving herself in shit that isn't her business, often in a very destructive way.

So, I want this stuff to be secured from her urge to casually snoop. I've tried googling this but seemingly every thread about it is people immediately recommending extreme levels of security and encrypted virtual drives and gluing your damn laptop shut and I'm sure it's great advice for the people trying to hide their corporate secrets and massive collections of hentai from the NSA but I just want to make it deeply inconvenient for my 77 year old mom to be a pain in my ex wife's ass.

I'm planning to leave my mom with the account password in the rare eventuality that while overseas I need her to get anything out of my files - so my question is, if I create a password protected folder (obviously using a different password), is that going to be for all intents and purposes safe from her casually snooping on the drive? Or is there some way in settings that she could disable the password on that folder without knowing it? She's old but not computer illiterate, she was a college professor in a STEM field.

Again I REALLY don't want to start using shit like VeraCrypt or whatever - I don't need to secure anything from the CIA, it's just really personal letters. I also don't like using cloud storage in general so not really wanting to use the OneDrive vault - really just want to know if the default passwording feature on folders is reasonably secure without the password. Thanks in advance, I know it's a pretty noob level question but every answer I can find is just trying to do way too much.

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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?

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.

 

Password protected folder/file in Windows 7 ?

Simply

I would like windows to ask for a password when ANYBODY opens up a "password protected folder" , nothing more. This is an epic fail for win7 to not have a native feature like this , ... workaround?


-no freaking external programs
-no encryption
-not via policy settings (usless for network users)
-the web is full of nooby-youtube videos and cheap 123 advert-sites which includes: external programs, zip arcihves, other useless stuff ... but there's some command prompt instructions which i didn't tried yet.


The folder is shared on the network that's why is currently useless to use security policy.

Unless you find a way to select other network users via security policy.

I never found a way to link another PC with the user of another , the "locations" is always from local computer , that's stupid.

There's also an option to "encrypt contents to secure data" ... that should automatically make a password protected , but it's totally useless , that's the password it takes from the user account passworld , plus , it's encrypting , it will take 22 hours to encrypt a 225 GB folder, which i need FAST accesss and not for archival.