Hide Files & Folders and Easy File & Folder Protector Software for Windows

File & Folder Protector
$49 - Ixis Ltd

Protect Files and Folders is a great easy-to-use password-protected security utility working at Windows kernel level you can use to password-protect certain files and folders, or to hide them securely from viewing and searching just with a click of mouse. Upon accessing any protected file or folder, dialog box querying password appears on the screen. If valid password entered, user gets access to the file or folder, otherwise not. Protect Files and Folders does not modify your media: in protecting your files or folders, it just uses a high-reliability VXD driver working at Windows kernel level. This guarantees that Protect Files and Folders will never lose your data, as may happen if you use other file- and folder-protecting software. Due to unique technology, the program also lets you protect system files and folders such as the Windows System, Registry and Swap files. Go ahead! Download the program right now! You will find it very easy to use.

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Folder Vault
$9.95 - Gear Box Computers

Folder Vault is a file-security program allowing the user to hide, lock, encrypt and protect files and folders in the blink of an eye. With one master password FolderVault will protect your files, folders and even entire drives from being viewed, deleted, renamed, removed or accessed. Encrypt and hide your folders, files, pictures, documents in a flash. Folder Vault has advanced features such as "Stealth-Mode", allowing the user to run the program completely hidden to prevent other snoopers from even knowing it exists. Folder Vault uses advance security features allowing you to hide your folders and files from Windows, Dos and even Safe Modes. Encrypt your files and folders in your "Vault" using 256 bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known as Rijndael, a block cipher adopted as an encryption standard by the U.S. government... Use Folder Vault's Log feature to view malicous login attempts. Other features of Folder Vault include: Auto Protect and close your vault, Auto-Shutdown your PC, Erase recent document history, Auto-Empty Recycle Bin, Clean Internet Explorer History, Clear Internet Explorer Address Bar History, Erase Internet Explorer Temporary Internet Files & Cookies, Can't be uninstalled without the owners permission, Hide from Add Remove Programs.

Folder Vault can also be used to lock/ hide individual programs on your computer from being run, accessed or used. Block access to your email program such as Microsoft Outlook. Simply lock the Outlook program directory to secure it.

Want to lock your Microsoft Internet Explorer favorites from being viewed or used? Simply lock the favorites folder and they will not show up in your browser application.

Stealth mode features of ?FolderVault?:

Hides from "Add Remove Programs"
Hides all shortcuts from Desktop, Startmenu
Hides the program folders
Hides from the taskbar
Hides from Alt > Tab Menu
Hides from Task Manager running process list
Assign a HotKey combination to bring it back up

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CryptArchiver
$25 - WinEncrypt Encryption Software and Security Solutions

The popular award-winning choice for password-protecting files, folders and drives on all versions of Windows, including Windows Vista!

It's really easy to hide, encrypt and password protect data with CryptArchiver.
All you do is drag-and-drop your important files and folders into an encrypted drive - just like an ordinary drive! CryptArchiver has an intuitive and easy-to-use interface.

CryptArchiver Lite is encryption software for the desktop. It creates a special Encrypted Drive that can only be accessed with a password. Files stored in this drive are automatically encrypted on-the-fly. Once loaded, the encrypted drive is like any other drive.
When you unload the encrypted drive, it disappears from Windows! No one can access your data without the password. Load the Encrypted Drive again with the password, to access your files.

You can protect all types of files - be it email, databases, spreadsheets, text, graphics, audio or even video. You can even make encrypted backups of your files easily on your hard drive, or on external drives like CDs, DVDs, or USB devices. What's more, you can even install and run programs that are accessible and visible only to you!

Includes the capability to create self-decrypting (.exe) files to send by email to people who don't use the software.

Secure your important files and folders - get CryptArchiver today!

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Max PC Safe
$29.95 - Max Secure Software

Max PC Safe is a encryption software that can encrypt/decrypt any number of files, folders, pictures and documents in seconds. It is fast, reliable, and convenient. Max PC Safe ensures that your files remain highly secure, it saves your password when you move files on removable disks from one PC to another, it lets you encrypt as well as lock your files. This encryption tool can encrypt files from right click in windows explorer. Protect files from theft, privacy breaches and data losses, hide files from kids, friends and co-workers, safeguard them from Viruses, Trojans, Worms and Spyware, secures from network computers, cable users and hackers by just changing file extension.

Prime features
- The fastest and easiest way to Encrypt-Decrypt files and folders
- Protect files from theft, privacy breaches and data losses, hide files from kids, friends and co-workers, safeguard them from virus, trojan, worms and spyware, secures from network computers, cable users and hackers by just changing file extension.
- Explorer integration- so encryption can be done either from application or window explorer just on right click.
- Works on Windows XP /2000 /NT /Me /98 and all kinds of disk types like FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS & EFS.

Benefits:
- Easiest way to encrypt and decrypt the files and folders.
- You can assign unique passwords to the individual file for more security
- Easy-to-use password-protected security utility lets you password protect certain files and folders, or to hide them securely from viewing and searching just with a click of mouse.
- Can be transferred across the Internet in the same encrypted format. This guarantees that Max PC Safe will never lose your data, as may happen if you use other file & folder protecting the software.

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4t Explorer Sweeper
$19.95 - 4t Niagara Software

4t Explorer Sweeper clears browsing history such as cookies, temporary Internet files, index files, recently accessed files, URL's, search terms, passwords, etc. It also speeds up PC performance, increases free disks space and improves security by clearing the content of various Explorer and Netscape folders.

In its "System Tray" mode it runs in system Tray as icons and helps to free up space on your taskbar. In "Invisible" mode application is not possible to see even in the system Tray, but it still can run automatically every several minutes (you can still activate Options by clicking the
special "Options" link in your "4t Explorer Sweeper" Start menu section).

MAIN FEATURES:
- Includes 4t Fresh Links - validates your MS IE Favorite links
- Includes 4t Disk Scan - scans your disks for objectionable content
- Includes 4t Startup Manager - allows you managing the list of applications, which run on MS Windows startup on your PC
- Supports MS Internet Explorer 4.xx, 5.xx, 6.xx and Netscape 4.xx, 6.xx 4t Explorer Sweeper is compatible with multiple Netscape 4.xx and 6.xx profiles.
- Hides and restores all Internet Explorer & Netscape windows by customized keyboard shortcut
- Runs automatically by your choice
- System Tray and Invisible modes
- "AutoKill" mode. The program now can monitor opened browser windows and run automatically
when the last browser window will be closed.
- Can clear AutoComplete history in Internet Explorer and Netscape
- Can clear browsers' cache folders
- Can remove Internet Explorer & Netscape Cookies files
- Can clear visited links history in Internet Explorer and Netscape
- Can clear Windows Temporary files folder, Recent Documents list,
- Clears MS Office 2000 Recent files/document lists
- Clears customized additional folders
- Clears Windows Command prompt autocomplete list
- Clears Windows MediaPlayer and RealPlayer recently opened files lists and
- Maintains "Hidden Favorites" list

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Bildsoft SecureDNA 2007 + Roboform
$60 - Bildsoft

Bildsoft SecureDNA 2007 is the all-in-one security suite of Bildsoft, which provides high-level protection for users of PCs. The software features are: 256-bit AES encryption of an unlimited amount of data and folders; e-mail encryption; USB sticks protection; CD protection; the Roboform password manager; password quality control; privacy for favourites Web sites; a file and folder shredder; hide data in audio and image files; quick drag & drop protection/deprotection. It includes Crypter (it creates, hides and protects virtual hard disks) and Safest (the highest-level protection for your files) (SecureDNA will download these components for evaluation purposes). The user can do unlimited operation in the same time, without closing or moving any window, due to auto-hiding dock-windows technology.

Includes a full version of Roboform, the password manager leader product and CrashLess 2007, which makes the product more stable.

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