These are some of the processes with which it is possible to protect a folder or a file in Windows from any other person’s gaze.
If you share a computer at home or in the office and you want to protect a document, it is necessary to take a series of security measures. Imagine that you share a computer with your family and you write a personal diary in it or you have confidential company information on a computer that can be left open when you go to the cafeteria to get a glass of water.
Whatever the case, the first thing we must do is block our users with a password and turn off the computer or close the user when we leave the device unattended. After these basic measures, there are other tricks that can help us further restrict access to that private information.
For starters, there are third-party programs that allow you to apply a password to folders or files within Windows 10 . It is necessary to download and install a program on the computer and it is important to be careful not to download just any, no matter how cheap it may be, as it may be a trap and contain malware.
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To prevent anyone from copying or deleting that information causing a serious problem, we can also make use of these two tricks that Windows 10 offers natively. Without having to install anything we can restrict access and hide the folder to make it more difficult to locate.
Restrict who has access
- Right-click on the file or folder you want to protect and select the Propertiesoption .
- In the next window, select the Securitytab and the Edit button to change the permissions.
- In the next window “Capture permissions” press the Addbutton .
- Now you have to write in ” the object names you want to select“, the users you want to indicate: Administrator, everyone, guest, users, for example.
- Once written, click on OK, you will return to the previous window.
- Now indicate the permissions that you want that user to have and which ones not in the lower section with “Allow and Deny” and click OK. By indicating all users and checking all the boxes in the Deny section, you lock the folder.
Hide file
- Find the file or folder you want to hide and right-click it to open the Propertieswindow .
- This time select the Generaltab .
- Now check the Hiddenbox and finally hit OK on this and the next warning window that will appear.
- To verify that the process has been completed successfully, you will see that the folder or file disappears. Go to the Viewsection at the top of the File Explorer , there you have an option of hidden elements with which to make the hidden document emerge.
- Then uncheck Hidden items againor the folders will be visible for the rest.
With these two tricks you can further protect the information from strange looks, although as you have seen it is easy to override these measures if you know how . They are a help, but not an infallible method, the security of any documentation increases the more barriers we apply with passwords, antivirus and other systems. Don’t bet all your cards on just one.
