Private-Folders

PRIVATE FOLDERS is a security software to prevent unauthorized access to files and folders on your computer. With Private Folders you can easily lock and hide your files and folders with a password. It handles your data immediately - no time required for protecting and unprotecting. Files protected with Private Folders are inaccessible for all local and remote users and applications.

Available for download: version 1.0. Works with Windows XP, Vista, 7, 2003, 2008.

 
Why Private Folders
The problem of hiding private information has been known since ancient times. Numerous war conflicts, succession to the throne issues made people to invent secret writing. But keeping secrets was required in daily life too. E.g. Spanish Prime Minister Manuel de Godoy (1767 -1851) kept painting of Francisco Goya The Naked Maja behind The Clothed Maja which could be revealed by a special mechanism:

Hover your mouse over the painting to "activate" mechanism and reveal The Naked Maja.

Most of computer users have secret files on their computers. This may include private photos, videos, documents, etc. which you never want to share with others. How can you protect your files from other users, but keep them accessible to yourself? You can use NTFS permissions to control user access to your files, but this approach is good only if you are the only administrator of your computer and other users have limited privileges. Moreover, you cannot hide your files and folders with NTFS permissions. You can only lock them or protect your files from being modified or erased.

Our Private Folders utility lets you not only lock your data securily from all other users, but make your files and folders invisible!

   
Private Folders Features  
  • Immediate protecting and unportecting
  • Different protection modes: Hide, Lock, Hide&Lock, Read Only, Unprotected
  • You can protect any number of files and folders, each of them can be protected with its own protection mode
  • Password protected program start and uninstall
  • Wildcards in the path supported - protect files by mask (e.g. *.jpg)
  • Trusted applications - you can designate processes that are allowed to access protected files and folders
  • Hotkeys to start the program, enable or disable protection
  • Safe mode support - your files are still protected in Windows safe mode
  • Compatibility with all modern operating systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, 2003, 2008
  • Compatibility with 64-bit Windows editions
  • Compatibility with all Winodws file systems - FAT, FAT32, NTFS, exFAT
 
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