If there’s one feature that I still can’t believe Windows doesn’t have in 2026, it’s the ability to lock files and folders. Sure, your Windows account is already protected by a PIN or password, but ...

A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...

I have all but moved on from password to passkeys, where possible, as a safer alternative to typing a long string of characters. But there's a caveat: if someone gains physical access to your computer ...

I'm trying to control concurrent access to a file in a Win32 application. The file is a SQLite database, and on Windows SQLite opens files via CreateFile() with FILE_SHARE_READ and FILE_SHARE_WRITE ...