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By Abhishek Ghosh November 27, 2010 5:12 pm Updated on November 27, 2010

Creating a user locked folder in Windows 7

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Whether it is possible to create a folder that will contain user’s personal documents that can only be opened by the user and all other users of the Windows 7 on the same PC can not access it anyway?

Yes it is possible.

I will show you, how to create a folder with a lock sign on it, that can only be accessed the original user or author, no other user can access it, even it is not in My Documents folder.

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For example, I have created a folder named The Customize Windows in E partition of my Windows 7 PC:

create an user locked folder-1

By right-clicking on the folder, select Properties and open the Security tab :

create an user locked folder-2Now, click the Users other than you; click Edit:

create an user locked folder-3Select the user group/user and fill the check box how much you will give access to the user.

You can allow only to read, not to copy or even not to access/open the folder. After restart or simply restarting the explorer.exe, when an unauthorized user wants to open the folder, he/she will get this:

create an user locked folder-4

In the above example, I have made all users to be denied by the System to access the folder.

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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "Creating a user locked folder in Windows 7," in The Customize Windows, November 27, 2010, March 28, 2023, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2010/11/creating-a-user-locked-folder-in-windows-7/.

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