Looking for a program that secures/locks files from other users on the same computer.

djxput · 27 Jan 2020 at 10:30

Basically I journal ... dear diary type of stuff. I have hundreds of old entries. I prefer these to be private. I tend to use wordpad for this.

I was using a program called lock a folder ... or something and thought this was hiding and securing the folder - but it was only hiding it (needed a password to unhide) but not keeping the journal entries from something simple as the recent list when you search. Basically I could still bring up my journals from the recent search.

I prefer something where I could lock/hide a folder and have this be secured by a password and not be in the recent tab or one that doesnt load them up if clicking on it. Doesnt have to be hightech etc ... I prefer the whole folder instead of individual documents password protected.

thanks

Zefan · 27 Jan 2020 at 10:49

Is there a reason why you can't do this with separate user accounts?

Pho · 27 Jan 2020 at 11:05

Just create an encrypted volume using VeraCrypt (which was forked from TrueCrypt which has been around for years).

All you then do is double-click the veracrypt file, enter your password, and it mounts it as a removeable drive that you can do whatever you want with. When you're done just unmount it and you're good to go.

djxput · 27 Jan 2020 at 11:31

Zefan said:
Is there a reason why you can't do this with separate user accounts?

Well I 'only' use my computer but if my wife or others (say a babysitter) wanted to they could so something simple where I could just keep those things private.

djxput · 27 Jan 2020 at 11:32

Pho said:
Just create an encrypted volume using VeraCrypt (which was forked from TrueCrypt which has been around for years).

All you then do is double-click the veracrypt file, enter your password, and it mounts it as a removeable drive that you can do whatever you want with. When you're done just unmount it and you're good to go.

ok thanks Ill take a look at that. This the best option then? so removable drive so the files dont disappear then when unmounted?

snips86x · 27 Jan 2020 at 11:33

Would be easy enough to create a guest account with a password and then apply a local group policy to that account, not allowing access to other files/folders.

Pho · 27 Jan 2020 at 14:19

djxput said:
ok thanks Ill take a look at that. This the best option then? so removable drive so the files dont disappear then when unmounted?

Yeah, everything is kept.

It should be very secure as it uses high-end widely used encryption algorithms. It even has a "plausible deniability" mode where you can set-up two passwords on your container. Password1 = access the real hidden stuff you don't want people to see and Password2 = access to some stuff you've put in there to look like it's really the things you want to hide but it's just a facade. You probably don't need that unless you're a drug dealer or something though

ecksmen · 28 Jan 2020 at 22:52

OneNote and password protected workbooks?

Deleted member 77746 · 28 Jan 2020 at 23:21

How about using outlook.com cloud solution then there won’t be a need to lock anything. It’s all stored for you safely without needing anything locally.

then it can be edited from any system with internet access.