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?

Do you want to know how to password protect folders in Windows 11/10? There are six ways to do this, and we will show you how to do it with step-by-step instructions.

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.

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

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.

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.

To password protect a folder in Windows 10, you'll need to open the folder's "Properties" menu. There's no way to recover a folder's password if you forget it, so make sure you write the password ...

In Word, Excel, or PowerPoint for Windows, open the file you want to protect with a password, then select File and Info. You should see a Protect option at the top of the next list: Click this ...

But what kind of encryption it provides depends on the program you use to create and open the ZIP file. The .zip format supports two forms of encryption and password protection.