With Hide Folders you can make your folders invisible to other people that have access to your computer. Hide Folders is free application, it is made to help users protect privacy by hiding their confidential files and folders from the eyes of those who are not supposed to see them. Hidden folders can not be viewed, accessed, opened or searched for. Hidden folders can not be uncovered by deinstalling the program, and folders will be hidden even in Windows Safe Mode.
Hide Folders, on the other hand is not meant to lock the folders with predefined password, it is meant to simply HIDE them, so no one can even know of their existence. It is simply more efficient not letting anyone know that you even have some confidential folders on the first place. Secondly, you can password protect the application so no one can open Hide Folders to unhide your hidden folders. Remove the Hide Folders from the programs menu and 99% of people wouldn't even know that you have a folder hiding program installed on your system, yet knowing what and where those folders are. Trying to get access to a folders without knowing if they exist, their name and location is incredibly daunting task and for that matter Hide Folders in much safer that integrated Windows locking system.
Hide Folders is free application. It is simple, thoroughly tested and used many times. However, due to its simplicity it is not an all mighty solution for users that look for an absolute safety of a feature packed software. If that is your main concern you may want to pay for a commercial product (I highly recommend Folder Lock), if not for an added options and security alone, than for a support and upgrades I can not, due to the nature of free software, guarantee.
Features :
Securely hide folders with your confidential data
Works on Windows XP and Windows Vista, supports NTFS, FAT32 and FAT file system.
Password protection - folders can be unhid only after entering a password within the program.
Hidden folders can not be uncovered by deinstalling the program.
Unlimited number of folders can be hidden.
Folders are hidden even in Windows safe mode.
Fast and user-friendly skinned user interface.
Intuitive for usage, no learning curve.
Platform: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista
System Requirements: There is no specific requirements
Language: English
