Controlled Folder Access - Windows 10?

[Amir93]

Hi guys, i'm currently using windows 10 64-bit version 1809 with the latest builds, its working fine without such any problems.

 

Recently i got some problem with "Controlled Folder Access", that thing used to block unauthorized changes to folders or prevent ransomware attack or something like this, but anyways, that thing recently started to annoy me, because it blocks many stuff with no reason, i'm using my PC for gaming, so lemme give you few examples for this:

 

1. I'm using MSI AfterBurner for monitoring my hardware temperature and consumption... etc while gaming, of course you know that, so everytime when i finish gaming, and close MSI AfterBurner, then i got a notification saying: "controlled folder access blocked MSI AfterBurner from making changes, click to see details", when i click to check details, i found nothing, just the normal settings page of controlled access folder.

 

2. When gaming itself, sometimes it blocks the game itself during gameplay, causing it to totally terminate then i have to open it again, in some more times it blocks games savings, i think also terminating games while playing because of that, terminate the game when saving, in many times it blocks the saving only but game keeps running but without saving any progress, so if i closed the game and open it again, then i found no saves available, saying that same above message "Controlled folder access blocked 'GameName.exe' from making changes, click to see details", when clicking to check details, i found nothing, just opening the controlled access folder settings, just like above.

 

- So this is really ridiculous, i don't wanna turn off that thing, because i don't wanna any ransomware attack as i have so many games, some personal data, and i don't wanna lose anything and re-download my games again, cuz i have a limited internet speed here in my country, however, i don't wanna that thing to annoy me during gaming or whatever.

 

So any help please?

Sorry for a little bad english too.

[Bombastinator]

Shakespeare once talked about armor “which scalds with safety”.  It’s the way of defensive stuff.  You can take your armor off or leave it on.

If you just want to loosen it a bit, You should be able to find the folders which the game is using and “control the access” to allow those programs to make changes.  Could be kind of a PITA though and if an attack was able to use the folders you freed up it could cause issues.

[DarkMagician22]

I know this is very late...

But controlled folder access is as you said to prevent unauthorized applications from accessing sensitive files (documents and such).

Unfortunately there is no option to take a folder out of the protection of Controlled Folder Access (While CFA is enabled).

However applications (Specifically exe files) can be whitelisted to run even when CFA is enabled.

There is a link under the CFA settings called "Allow an app through Controlled Folder Access"