The chances of malware and ransomware attack reduces for the folders on which you have enabled the Controlled Folder Access feature. This is a useful feature added by Microsoft for the safety of sensitive data that lies in folders across your system from any attacks, malware, ransomware, or attackers. If you aren’t aware how to enable and use this feature to start protecting your sensitive data by controlling the access of some specific folders of your machine, then let’s walk through some ways that will guide you to make it enable.
Enable Controlled Folder Access Via Windows Defender Security Center
You can enable the newly added features of Controlled Folder Access from the Windows Defender Security Center. To do this, follow the steps below: So you are done by enabling the “Controlled folder access” feature on your system, now your folders will be protected from any attacks and malware. If any software or app needs to get access to any file from that particular protected folder, that software won’t be able to get access to it due to permission issues and gives you a message that the software is incapable of doing this.
Enable Controlled Folder Access Via Group Policy Editor
You can enable the Controlled Folder Access feature via the Group Policy Editor by going to the following steps:
Enable Controlled Folder Access Via PowerShell console
If you do not want to do all these steps described in the above solutions, then here is another short way to enable the “Controlled Folder Access” feature by executing a command in the PowerShell window. These three are the ways that can enable the feature of “Controlled Folder access” on your system to start protecting the folder which contains sensitive data of yours. It is a very practical feature added by Microsoft as you can easily control access to any folder with it.
How do I add folders to the protected folders list?
Have you start controlling the access of your folders with this feature? If not, then enable it now and stay safe. Also see:
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