content: How to protect Windows 10 from accessing your network drives? Last week I caught Windows 10 doing something on my network drive for hours. When I pulled the network cable, Superfetcht was seen in my task manager.  I don't know what it did but it ate up more than a 1 TB of network space to a point that it started to delete all my snapshots. I never found out where the disk space went, so I reformatted the network drive and put back the backup. So this time I am very concerned that Windows 10 will start to eat up my disk space again when I logon to it. Sometimes I will need to access the network drive (to take my backups), but at that moment Windows will know the login and password and I want to avoid that. One trick could be to change the password every time I logged on to it with Windows 10. But that is a lot of work.  So how would you protect your network drive? Have a safe space that Windows can't access?  I checked out Steganos Suite 17, that is protecting your files but it does not seem to protect you from Windows 10 spying eyes. I mean it can create a vault, but it gives Windows 10 access to that vault too. So there is no point to use Steganos Suit 17. And no moving to Linux is not an option in this case.  Edit: Some screen-shots what happened and why I don't want Windows 10 near my network drives.