Monday 31 October 2011

Hide Your Files and Folders and Password Protect with Free Software

There are many reasons why we should hide or password protect some of the file and folders in our systems. We want to keep certain things secret or we want to hide some of our personal information from our friends and families. If you are parents you may find necessary to hide and password protect some of the files and folders from your children.

There are many ways to hide or password protect our files and folders but here I wanna share about one of  software which is very easy to install and very handy to use.It is free to download. You may also lock your files and folders using notepad.

Download the setup Free hide folder from here and then double click on the setup. Installation will start. Only thing you will have to do is click next and next. In the process you will find, “Enter the name of the program manager group to add free hide folder icons to:”. No need to worry about it. Just click next as shown below.
Free hide folder

When you are done with installation, you may lunch the program and there you will be asked to put your password. Please make sure that you don’t forget the password as you will need it when you use the software to hide and unhide files and folders.

After confirming your password, you will be asked to enter the registration code which you can skip as shown
Free hide folder
You can now add any number files and folders to that you want to hide and exit the program.

If you wish to unhide the files and folders, then run the program from your desktop icon or start up menu and then put your password. Select the folder that you want to unhide and click unhide. You can also remove the folder. Please take a look at the following picture.


And yea that is how you can hide your folder securely.
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