How To Prevent Access To Your Personal / Financial Files In Windows?

Hi everyone! This trick will show you how to prevent access to personal files, follow these steps:

Suppose you have a text file called “Example”.
Go to Tools> Folder Options> Go to View Tab.
Uncheck the option “Hide Extensions for Known File Types”.
This action will display the extensions of filese in the computer.
Click Apply and OK.
The file “Example” will be displayed as “Example.txt”.
Rename the file from “Example.doc” to “Example.aaa”.
You can give any file name and any extension instead of “.aaa” but ensure that the extension is not associated with any other program.
The Computer will ask you for confirmation.
Click Yes.
The file icon will change now.
Your file is in-accessible now.

For viewing back the file:

Open the program in which the file can be view. In the above example, open notepad.
Drag the file to the notepad.
That's all.
OR change back the extension to ".txt".

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