Free Softwares to Hide, Password Protect, Lock Private Files Folders

Most people have many files or folders on their computer which they do not want to others see or use them (obviously). With these free hide folder softwares you can protect your files avoiding them to be being modified, seen or erased by other users.

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Best Free Softwares to Hide Folders, Password Protect Files

#Free Hide Folder (link) : Free Security Software to Hide Folders

Free Hide Folder is a free computer security software to hide your private folders. It is very useful to keep your personal data away from others. Others will not know where your personal files exist and they will not be able to accidentally view them. You can hide folders simply with a few mouse clicks. Free Hide Folder is protected by a password that you can change or remove at any time.

#Hide Folder HiBit (link)

Hide Folder HiBit lock is a program that will perform actions like: Real Hide, Lock, Encrypt, undelete or Recycle folder or file in 1 second.

• Protect any folder or file by : Hide, Lock, Encrypt or make a folder as a recycle Bin.
• The protected folders or files still protected even in other computers.
• The protect Operation just take 1 second at any computer. You can undelete the folder or file by Locking it.
• Works with FAT32, FAT16, FAT12 and FAT and all windows versions.

#Folder Hider (link) : Hide, Password Protect Files, Folders, Pictures, Documents in Seconds.

Almost every computer user keeps files that are personal, private and confidential, or important to be preserved as undeletable. You may have files that are inappropriate for kids or other family members, or files with valuable information that can be stolen. Such files and folders need security protection so that intruders or unauthorized users cannot access, read, view, copy, move or delete them. "Folder Hider" can hide and password-protect your files, folders, pictures, and documents in seconds. With Folder Hider, you can keep all the data you want to secure in a Privacy Area.

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#Folder Lock (link) – File Lock and File Encryption Software

Folder Lock offers fastest way of encrypting and password protecting files and folders. You can either choose to encrypt important files from techies or lock your files, pictures and private data from casual users. Folder Lock comes with locking, encryption, shredding, stealth mode, hack attempt monitoring, portability, plug & play support, history cleaning, and more than 20 privacy features all tailored to special needs for people wanting privacy and security.

#Hide Folder (link) – PC Security Guard Software

Hide Folder encrypts and hides groups of files as well as folders and disk drives. It can securely lock down your Windows Desktop, Control Panel and other PC settings so that entry of your secret password is the only way to make any changes.

#MySecretFolder (link) : Password Protect Secret Folder

MySecretFolder is a powerful yet easy to use Windows program that you can use to hide your private folder (and the files it contains) from other users of your computer, or to lock the folder with a password. Unlike the built-in security of Windows, MySecretFolder does not require your hard drive to be NTFS-formatted and works fine with windows 7.

Lock A Folder Using Notepad, Make it Inaccessible without Key

Want to know how to to lock a folder using Notepad ? Here is the trick :

• Consider you want to lock a folder named PICS in your D:\ , whose path is D:\PICS
• Now open the Notepad and type the following

  ren pics pics.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

• Where pics is your folder name. Save the text file as lock.bat in the same drive.
• Open another new notepad text file and type the following

  ren pics.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} pics
• Save the text file as key.bat in the same drive.

Usage :

• To lock the pics folder, simply click the loc.bat and it will transform into control panel icon which is inaccessible.
• To unlock the folder click the key.bat file. Thus the folder will be unlocked and the contents are accessible.

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