Hide Folders XP 2.9.8 is a System Locking product from fspro.net, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, Hide Folders XP allows you to select up to 64 folders of your choice to hide and protect with a password. The selected folders will become invisible, and are impossible to find, or remove without the proper password. This allows you to leave your computer unattended without having to worry that someone will access your private data. In addition, the software clears Recent Documents and Recycle Bin items belonging to hidden folders and removes itself from the list of installed program, it works even if a computer has been started in safe mode.
Hide Folders XP is a simple but ingenious software for Microsoft Windows XP and 2000 users. Every day we trust our personal files to a computer. Who knows how many people will want to get access to them? If you share your computer with coworkers, children, spouse or your computer is always connected to the Internet, your private files are under threat of being revealed. Since 2001, our Hide Folders program products help our users to hide private files and folders from prying eyes.
With Hide Folders XP you can easily protect any number of folders and files on your computer. You can select any file or folder to protect from the program, drag-and-drop the desired files and folders from Windows Explorer into the Hide Folders XP window or just right click mouse button on a file or folder in Explorer and select "Hide & Lock with Hide Folders XP" from the drop-down menu.
Hide Folders XP Features and benefits:
Unlimited number of files and folders to protect
Different protection modes: Hide folder, Lock folder, Hide & Lock folder
Instance protection - It doesn't perform any file scrambling or moving to another "secret" place.
Protected folders will be inaccessible to all users including system administrators
Password protection against unauthorized users
Folders can be protected even in Safe mode
True stealth mode
Windows XP x64 compatibility
Optional Windows Explorer integration
Evidence elimination
Hot keys support
A lot of advanced users believe that Hide Folders XP (as well as any other third party folder protection software) is useless because Windows has integrated file and folder lock features.
Well, indeed, you can lock folders with Windows XP and this folder will be inaccessible by the other (unauthorized) users. But there are some annoying limitations that you should be aware of:
Windows allows you to lock files and folders on NTFS volumes only. FAT and FAT32 are not supported. Although nowadays it's too difficult to find a Hard Disk Drive (HDD) formatted with FAT, it's still in use in different removable storage devices.
It is impossible to hide folder or file with standard Windows XP facilities. Only file and folder lock is possible.
There is no way to make folder invisible but accessible which is helpful for different security tasks like logging, private data recording, backing up etc.
A system administrator can easily get access to the locked folders and files.
Windows XP home edition doesn't have a user interface to protect files and folders.
There is no files and folders password protection in Windows XP (except the password you provide during Windows logon) - as soon as an authorized user authenticate himself by logging on, s/he get access to the protected files and folders. If you share your account with the another users then you can't exploit Windows folder protection features.
New protection modes: Hide folder, Lock folder, Hide & Lock folder
If you are a Hide Folders XP 1.x user, you are probably know, that all hidden folders were inaccessible as well. So if you hide a folder with Hide Folders XP 1.x you also lock this folder. In Hide Folders XP 2.x this mode is called Hide & Lock. When you add a new folder to Hide Folders XP list, it will receive Hide & Lock protection attribute by default.
There are 3 additional protection modes available in Hide Folders XP 2.x:
Hide folder protection mode. The protected file or folder will not be visible to a user, but it will be possible to access it if you know the path to the object. This can be helpful when you want to hide software folders but allow running the applications from these folders. E.g. you can hide Hide Folders XP software folder, so nobody will know about it, but if you type from the command prompt "C:\Program Files\HFXP2\hfxp.exe", Hide Folders XP will run.
Lock folder protection mode. The protected file or folder will be visible but not accessible. It is similar to built-in protection of Windows NT-based operating systems on NTFS volumes. You cannot use this protection method for Windows, System and Hide Folders XP software folders.
No protection mode. If you choose this method, your file or folder will remain unprotected even if the protection is activated.
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Easy password protection for any private folder
It is very easy to protect files and folders with a password. Just specify your own password for opening Hide Folders XP and nobody but you will access your hidden files and folders! For more security you can password protect Hide Folders XP from unauthorized uninstall.
Stealth mode - Hide a folder and nobody will know about it
It is possible to remove all the tracks of Hide Folders XP.
When Hide Folders XP software is not running, hidden files and folders are invisible anyway. Moreover, you can remove your Hide Folders XP software folder and the hidden files and folders will stay invisible. Fantastic?! Just try it - it's free!
When you quit Hide Folders XP, it can clear links to protected files from My Recent Documents folder, clear Recycle Bin file and folders that were protected before deletion and remove Hide Folders XP software from the mostly used programs list.
Moreover it is possible to hide uninstall information about Hide Folders XP program and hide folders even in Windows Safe mode.
As flexible and advanced as you want it to be
During the development process of the Hide Folders XP we discussed and considered every detail. Our users offered some of them, so we made the software as flexible as it was possible: The license of this antivirus & security software is Free Trial Software, the price is $29.95, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of Hide Folders XP, you can buy this antivirus & security software.