Everyone has private data on their PC, and one of the best ways to safeguard that is to password protect it. But do you know how to password protect a folder?

Secure your sensitive files on Mac with ease. Learn how to password protect folders on Mac and keep your data safe from prying eyes.

Knowing how to password protect a folder in Windows 10 allows you a degree of protection from the people you share your computer with — or from someone stealing your hard drive. As the name ...

Knowing how to password protect a folder on your Mac can help keep your files safe and secure. To create a protected folder on your Mac, you can turn your folder into a disc image, which is easier ...

Some applications have password protection features built in, while in other cases you'll need to lock up your files using a different method.

The batch file doesn't double encrypt your files in a nested Truecrypt volume or anything fancy, it simply makes a shortcut with basic password protection that takes a folder and flags it as a ...

A reader wants to know if there's a way to lock down a folder without installing third-party software. Here are some options, both with and without software.

On Windows 10, you can leverage storage virtualization and BitLocker to password-protect folders and files, and in this guide, I'll show you how.

On Windows 11, you can follow these steps to create a password-protected folder using the built-in virtual hard disk technology and BitLocker.