Protect files

>>350656
If you've not already, take the free Windows 10 upgrade. Sign in with a Microsoft account, and turn on system encryption.

Create a second account for your pornography.

Now your pornography is inaccessible, because when Windows is running it enforces Access Control Lists, so only Administrators and your pornography account can even look in \users\pornography, and when Windows is not running nothing can access the drive because of system encryption.

>>350656
I say look in options like whole volume encryption as elaborate as bitlocker to smaller yet elaborate options in the on-the-fly-encryption (OTFE) like truecrypt. If you can compound that with discipline to maintain those encrypted volumes on external drives or cloud services. Finally there are encrypted USB drives with a very high degrees of security.

>>350660
Do I really need to sign in with a microsoft account? Is bitlocker the system encryption or that's something else? Also my account is an admin otherwise I would probably have a hard time doing anything and I don't want to sign out every time someone might need to use the computer. I was kind of looking for another way for something to be disguisable because I don't want someone to be like I need admin controls and then I put them into my account or the admin account and they could stumble into it or try searching for something and run into it.

>>350673
I think bitlocker would be good but I think it only does entire drives not small folders or something. Also I thought truecrypt turned into bitlocker? I had a usb before that I had bitlocker on but it was only 32 gb. I stopped using it because I was scared to lose it and I was running out of space. Should I just save up for one of those big 256 gb usb drives? I know when I live alone or with someone who doesn't know shit about computers I will just get a bunch of huge hard drives and fill my pc with them and set a bunch of them to bitlocker and secret but I can't do that now.

>>350694
You know you can have more than one account signed in at once?

Actually you probably don't seeing as you let other people be administrator on your computer because it's less hassle.

Anyhoo, no you don't need a Microsoft account, but the wizard won't let you switch on full-disk encryption without it, because it wants to be able to store the recovery key on Onedrive so if you lose your motherboard or trash your windows install you don't permanently and irrevocably lock yourself out of your own data.

>>350694
The correct response, by the way, to
>I need admin
is
>Best Buy is that way.

>>350694
Bitlocker is the system encryption. Its greatest advantage is that it's already installed and expected to be installed, so no-one's going to go "oooooh, you installed TrueCrypt I bet you have porn worth looking for".

In the '90s and '00s, it was well known that NTFS stood for "Not That Fucking Secure": you could spell out ironclad permissions that prevented users from even seeing directories they weren't supposed to, but it didn't matter because some smartarse could boot a Windows installer, or a Linux CD, or yank the drive and put it in their PC, and these permissions were completely ignored because the OS wasn't running to enforce them.

Bitlocker puts an end to such shenanigans: any other computer tries to read the disk, or any other OS on the same computer* tries to read the disk, and it can't decrypt it. So your permissions are just as hard everywhere else as they are in your OS.

* you need a TPM for this, but every modern PC has one as it's a Made for Windows 10 requirement. If you don't have a TPM, you'll need to enter a PIN or plug in a USB stick to boot.

>>350703
I didn't mean literally signing out but I forgot signing out closes everything. Also never have more than one account and Windows 10 only lets you not sign out by switching accounts which doesn't show if you only have one account.

I just meant people in my family are pushy shits.

Ok that makes sense, thanks.

>>350704
Haha it's just the family members using the computer are familiar with them and know how to use them so it's annoying when something like that comes up for them.

>>350709
I forgot about bitlocker for a bit, I wanted to encrypt my drive for general security but I forgot about it. Just tried to right now and apparently I have no TPM or it's turned off in the bios so I'm gonna check that out quick and if not I'll just do one of those things.

>>350709
>>350718
Nevermind, no TPM for me. I have the slot on my mobo I think but bios listed no security device. Yeah I put together my pc so no TPM came with it, I understand what you are saying now about made for windows 10.

I don't mean to get my own thread off the rails but I'm not sure if there is anything else I can do regarding OP.

>>350660
>>350728
I'll try this though I forgot to say thanks.

GNU/Linux

>>350728
If you have the connector, you can get the TPM on eBay for ~$10. Just make sure it's got the same number of pins.

Other versions of Windows have Bitlocker too, it's just that Windows 10 is the first one where you can set it up just by pressing one button.

>>350752
Thank you.

https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/