Hide Folders® XP - Hide, lock and password protect your private files and folders from other users.

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Overview

Hide Folders XP is the best and easiest way to hide a folder or a file!

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 within the program's user interface, drag-and-drop the desired files and folders from Windows Explorer into the Hide Folders XP window, or just right click on a file or folder in Explorer and select “Hide & Lock with Hide Folders XP” from the drop-down menu.

The Main User Interface is easy to use.

Benefits

• Unlimited number of files and folders can be protected
• 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

Differences from the internal Windows XP data protection features

Many 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:

1. 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.
2. It is impossible to hide folder or file with standard Windows XP facilities. Only file and folder lock is possible.
3. There is no way to make a folder invisible but accessible which is helpful for different security tasks like logging, private data recording, backing up etc.
4. A system administrator can easily get access to the locked folders and files.
5. Windows XP home edition doesn't have a user interface to protect files and folders.
6. 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, they get access to the protected files and folders. If you share your account with the another users then you can't take advantage of Windows folder protection features.

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