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Want to protect your Windows desktop or laptop with a password? If you're using Windows 10 or 11, your PC will usually require a password by default. If it doesn't, you can easily change your settings to require a password. You can also password-protect the BIOS to prevent anyone from booting up your PC without the password. This wikiHow article will teach you simple ways to protect your Windows computer with a password.
Secure your digital life with online password best practices. Choose a long, easy-to-remember passphrase as your password. You should also avoid using the same password for multiple services or websites.
If your computer is in an area where other people may have physical access to it while it is up and running, you should consider setting up an automatic screen saver program with password protection. These programs operate on a timer, so that if you leave your workstation idle for a length of time, the screen saver will engage. If you password protect it, others will not have access to your desktop and open applications in your absence. Another other option is to use manual desktop locking, but of course you have to remember to use it!
Desktop locking is especially important if you leave applications running, and have access to sensitive or confidential information.
not sure if this is a feature within windows backup as I always use third party software but you could get a drive that you can encrypt, most external drives have this typew of facility or you could use bitlocker ?
Windows built-in backup program does not allow the addition of a password to the backup however. You could put all of your important data or even encrypt the entire hard drive with truecrypt and then run the backup.
This is exactly the way that our ShadowProtect backup software works. It encrypts your backup images as they are created whether with a key file you provide or a password. By the way, thank you Ken for the StorageCraft mention.
Thanks for the replies everyone. I would just like to clarify we are talking Microsoft Windows Backup, not a third party software. Thanks for mentioning truecrypt.com, Goalie1 and Chamele0n. I will be looking into this solution today. I also was wondering if it was possible just to encrypt the original files before backing up? Would they be encrypted in the backup?
I am struggling to password protect a folder in Windows 11 Home computer and need some guidance. I want to ensure that nobody can access the contents of this particular folder without entering the correct password. I have tried various methods such as creating a ZIP file with a password, using third-party software, and even changing the folder properties to make it hidden. However, none of these methods seem to work as I still noticed unauthorized access to the folder.
As I have done in the past, I am trying to protect sensitive information via Info/ 'Protect Workbook' /Encrypt with Password. After entering the password twice, it gives me the message 'A password is required to open this workbook'. When I close the file (after saving changes), file can be opened again without a password. Thank you for your help!
Absolutely right. If its saving as CSV then just have a pop up to say, Hey guys, this wont work with CSV format. Ive already now had to repair my laptop from throwing it across the room in frustration before i found this. Microsoft, you dicks...@Lianne_Abrahams
My problem: My Excel spreadsheet was created and encrypted using MS Office 2010. As I have just learned, Microsoft Office 365 which is built into my new HP laptop does not support "password protection." MS 365 automatically migrated all of my other old (password unprotected) Excel files, making them ineligible for encryption. So now, I am left with inability to encrypt any Excel spreadsheet.
Hi. You have a user name and password to access Evernote, and if someone else might look at your laptop you should lock and protect it with the OS password whenever you step away from the keyboard. Either logging out or locking the PC will protect your data as far as possible, though the database stored on your local hard drive is not encrypted and is stored in a standard format so even without logging into Evernote someone with moderate tech knowledge could browse your note content. It's possible to use third-party software to encrypt part of your hard disk such as Saferoom - - which is Evernote-compatible - to avoid that.
Thank you, I wanted more like an individual app locker, its impractical for me to lock down the family computer :/ I downloaded an app locker now and it's locked Evernotw and WONT LET ME BACK IN - so Im miserable :/
I can't imagine why it's impractical to lock down your computer. Mine shuts down after so many minutes of inactivity. It takes about three seconds to sign back in & IMO, it's ridiculous to leave a computer running in your home and not have it lock after a while or not lock it when you walk away. Authorized family members can easily & quickly unlock it in a matter of seconds.
Mine shuts down after so many minutes as well. I'm not talking about shutting down the PC, I'm talking about password protecting one particular app. I need to have my PC open at times with no access to certain apps. I'm sorry your imagination cannot accommodate my particular lifestyle.
We are not talking about shutting down your computer. Locking it does not turn it off. It simply requires a password. This prevents any guests in your home from being able to access the apps and it's silly to not do this, if you leave a computer running.
Sorry I meant locking it down. I am working and multitasking so not always using the correct words. My computer locks after a few minutes. As on my phone - I wanted to source an app locker to lock certain apps whilst leaving other things on my computer available for the family. Despite you not being able to imagine why, you have recommended an app that does just that. i suggest you google Gameprotector and read the list of reasons it gives as to why it might be useful.
I have not misremembered a password I thought of literally 30 seconds before using it. I used the app to lock Evernote as soon as it was downloaded and then used the password I had , only moments before, set up, to unlock it again. Oddly some apps are rubbish and go wrong.
Can you please stop calling me ridiculous and silly. The fact that my lifestyle isn't one you can "imagine" doesn't make it "silly", thus the existence of apps such as Gameprotector and the CM app locker on my phone.
Third, if you could set your emotions aside for a moment, you might be able to see that I am not insulting you. I am offering suggestions. And since you seem to be confusing so many issues in this very short thread, it would seem to be even more probable that you are misremembering the password.
I really do agree with the OP that there should be some way of locking Evernote. It should not be that hard, for instance, for the company to add a feature that password-protects individual notebooks.
And it doesn't require much imagination to see why. I have Evernote on a shared family computer. The computer does indeed require a pw to open it up once it sleeps. Everyone in my family (but not guests) can, thus, access the computer. So everyone in my family (but not guests) can open Evernote. So my children can open up the notebooks that my wife and I use to store confidential financial and medical information. I'd very much rather they couldn't do that -- especially when they have friends over, and unlock the computer and allow them to use it. It seems very odd to me that Evernote has never thought about this simple but (in my opinion) essential security feature.
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