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

Do you want to protect folders and files with a password? Here's how on Windows 11.

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