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• Find, lock, or erase a lost or stolen Windows 10 device, schedule a repair, and get support. Get expert answers and advice on Microsoft products and services. Just sign in and go. Access your favorite Microsoft products and services with just one login. From Office and Windows to Xbox and Skype, one username and password connects you to.
• There are two ways to open Registry Editor in Windows 10: In the search box on the taskbar, type regedit.Then, select the top result for Registry Editor (Desktop app). Press and hold or right-click the Start button, then select Run. Enter regedit in the Open: box and select OK.
• If you're using Windows 10, version 1803 and later, you can add security questions, as you'll see in step 4 under Create a local user account. With answers to your security questions, you can reset your Windows 10 local account password. Create a local user account. Select Start Settings Accounts and then select Family & other users.

• 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 down somewhere.
• Before you password protect a folder, you should copy the files within to an external hard drive or other source, so you can still access them if you lose the password.
• You can only password protect folders in the Pro version of Windows 10 — it's not available in Windows 10 Home.
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In nearly all cases, you can only access folders on a Windows computer once you're logged into your user account. But if multiple people use the same account on your computer — maybe you share it with your family — this leaves your folders open for snooping.

There's dozens of apps that let you encrypt your folders. But luckily, Windows offers its own built-in options for password protecting folders.

It's totally free and easy to password protect a folder in Windows. However, there are a few downsides.

The first is that you need to be running Windows 10 Pro — Home version won't let you. The second is that once you set the password, there's no way to recover it if you forget it.

Here's how to password protect a folder on your PC.

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How to password protect a folder in Windows

1. Open Windows Explorer and find the folder you want to password protect, and then right-click on it.

2. Select 'Properties.'

3. Click 'Advanced.'

4. At the bottom of the Advanced Attributes menu that appears, check the box labeled 'Encrypt contents to secure data.'

5. Click 'OK.'

6. Upon returning to the main window, click 'Apply.'

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7. On the 'Confirm Attribute Changes' window, choose between 'Apply changes to this folder only' or 'Apply changes to this folder, subfolders and files.'

8. Select 'OK.'

9. A notification prompting you to back up your file encryption key will appear. Click 'Backup now.'

10. Insert a USB flash drive to your computer, and follow the on-screen instructions to create your encryption certificate and export to the USB drive.

Note: The final step is optional, but if you skip it, you run the risk of losing access to your encrypted files.

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