It takes time to manage access control in Windows and requires administrative skills from users.Dr.So if you share your Windows account with the other users, then you can't use Windows folder protection features Windows does not allow setting password for protected data.Some Windows home editions don't have user interface to protect files and folders.A system administrator can easily get access to the folders and files locked with Windows NTFS features.NTFS won't let you make a folder invisible but accessible which is helpful for different security tasks like logging, private data recording, backing up etc.With Windows you can set user permissions to read/write/modify data, but not to hide files or folders.Windows allows you to lock files and folders on NTFS volumes only.But there are some annoying limitations that you should be aware of: Well, indeed, you can lock folders with Windows and this folder will be inaccessible by the other (unauthorized) users. Intuitive and extremely easy-to-use user interface with skins.Ī lot of advanced users believe that Hide Folders (as well as any other third party folder protection software) is useless because Windows has integrated file and folder lock features.Multilingual support, its user interface supports different languages and can be easily translated to new languages.Support of folders named with national language symbols.Command line support of all main Hide Folders functions.Hot keys to manage basic Hide Folders functions.Critical folders awareness - Hide Folders prohibits locking system folders for stability reasons.Data integrity - no file system structure modifications.Files from hidden folders will not be lost even if someone tries to remove an upper-level folder.Removing Hide Folders application folder from the system will not uncover hidden folders.Safe mode support - Your files and folders can be hidden even if your computer is running in safe mode.Password protection to prevent unauthorized users from accessing your private data.No limits on the size of protected data.Unlimited number of files and folders can be protected at the same time.

Trusted processes option lets you specify programs permitted to access the protected data.NTFS, FAT32, exFAT and FAT volumes are supported.4 protection methods available: Hide, Lock, Hide & Lock, Read Only.Immediate data protection (protect and unprotect commands are executed in no time).

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