OTOH, a supporter might need to have Admin rights, a common dilemma. Nevertheless, anybody who has an Admin account can lever out all your settings - so make sure that there is no Admin except you.

But this works only if nobody except you is able to change your 'deny access' setting to 'allow' this means that you have - additionally - to set the respective folder's owner appropriately. I prefer Windows' on-board equipment (see Daniel's solution) to any third-party tools. They may fail if Microsoft ever comes up to change the undocumented things - in the worst case you might get locked out from your data. zip solutions, see below) are based on undocumented Windows functions. supporters) laugh about most simple solutions: As long as the files itself are not modified, they can be read in one way or another.

So for instance if I have granted a support service remote access, they would then be able to change settings and so forth but not access the folder in question. The point is by default the system logs all the user actions, organizing and saving caches and temporary files, which could be traced to certain unprotected items and passwords, let alone a nice keylogger will tell its owners what they may need, so real security measures, local policies, and a strong anti-virus with HIPS is a must too ▲ Collapse I prefer password-locked zips with crypted names and a RAM-disk to remove possible traces on my host-or a configured virtual machine. Of course, it's recommended not to mix several similar tool and one should remember ALL of them (including system security, EFS/BitLocker, DiskCryptor and late TrueCrypt) are with drawbacks/limits and still hackable. Hello Jan-assuming your file system is NTFS and you're talking about local (not network/mapped) folders, there're plenty free and paid tools/drivers like Folder Password Protect, Anvide Seal Folder, WinMend Folder Hidden, LocK-A-FoLdeR, Folder Protector, SecretFolder, DirLock, Folder Guard, Protected Folder, Folder Lock Lite.

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Windows password protect folder