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<blockquote data-quote="RejZoR" data-source="post: 895349" data-attributes="member: 57233">Controlled Folder Access has to be the dumbest, most broken feature in existence. Ben trying it since it&#039;s first debut years ago and it&#039;s just as useless as it was back then. Microsoft claims they use whitelists so that known good programs have access to things but bad don&#039;t yet I still have to find this &quot;whitelist&quot;. Since the beginning it was constantly whining over super popular things like Steam accessing game files in Documents. Whining about Paint.NET doing the same. In fact it has been whining over EVERYTHING accessing Documents folders. It was always so god damn annoying I&#039;ve always disabled it. Guess how much changed in all these years. NONE. It&#039;s the same useless annoying garbage it was on day 1.If you want good ransomware protection with this method, then use avast!. At least their &quot;controlled folder access&quot; actually uses whitelist and you&#039;ll actually rarely see it annoy you over things. So far only FileOptimizer raised a dialog. Nothing else. Like NOTHING ELSE. And now they are even giving Ransomware Shield to free users.I just can&#039;t understand how Microsoft of all companies can&#039;t put their ##### together properly. I&#039;d suggest anyone to use this feature to keep their files safer, but not when it&#039;s this broken and this annoying. Now i know why it&#039;s disabled by default. Where avast!&#039;s Ransomware Shield I can easily recommend anyone using it by default. It&#039;s that seamless.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RejZoR, post: 895349, member: 57233"] Controlled Folder Access has to be the dumbest, most broken feature in existence. Ben trying it since it's first debut years ago and it's just as useless as it was back then. Microsoft claims they use whitelists so that known good programs have access to things but bad don't yet I still have to find this "whitelist". Since the beginning it was constantly whining over super popular things like Steam accessing game files in Documents. Whining about Paint.NET doing the same. In fact it has been whining over EVERYTHING accessing Documents folders. It was always so god damn annoying I've always disabled it. Guess how much changed in all these years. NONE. It's the same useless annoying garbage it was on day 1. If you want good ransomware protection with this method, then use avast!. At least their "controlled folder access" actually uses whitelist and you'll actually rarely see it annoy you over things. So far only FileOptimizer raised a dialog. Nothing else. Like NOTHING ELSE. And now they are even giving Ransomware Shield to free users. I just can't understand how Microsoft of all companies can't put their ##### together properly. I'd suggest anyone to use this feature to keep their files safer, but not when it's this broken and this annoying. Now i know why it's disabled by default. Where avast!'s Ransomware Shield I can easily recommend anyone using it by default. It's that seamless. [/QUOTE]

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