Private Folders and Hide Those Folders Software for Windows

WinDefender
$40 - RTSECURITY

WinDefender is a tool that you can use to secure your confidential data and protect your files and folders on computers running Windows 95/98/ME. It provides real-time protection and security service with strong encryption. Once you encrypt your private folders then can use them just all others, non-encrypted ones - files will be decrypting 'on the fly'! For any required files and folders you can assign access right, i.e. make it read-only or hide, for example. Try it first on any test files in order to see how it works!

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ACDSee 9 Photo Manager
$39.99 - ACD Systems

ACDSee 9 Photo Manager
Organize your photos. Share your world.

No matter what kind of photos you take - of friends and family or artistic shots as a hobby - you need photo software that organizes your shots AND allows you to view, fix, and share them quickly and easily.

ACDSee 9 makes organizing your photos exactly that: Quick and easy, so you can play with and share the great photos you've got. Get Photos fast from any storage device, and ACDSee 9 automatically categorizes your shots based on metadata information (e.g., keywords, size, date taken). You don't even have to lift a finger. You can also use new password protected Private Folders to store confidential information.

Get an array of rapid full-screen quick viewing tools, time-saving Print Layouts that make your home printing easier and less confusing, as well as powerful email options, slide shows, CD/DVD burning, and web album tools that make sharing your photos as easy as can be. Enhance your photos with quick fixes like red-eye removal, color cast removal, exposure adjustments, and the Photo Repair tool.

Batch rename, crop and resize lots of photos at once, then quickly drop them into folder systems, ratings, or custom categories. With ACDSee 9 you can instantly fix photos that are too dark or too bright with the new Shadow/Highlight tool.
ACDSee Quick View mode allows you to see your photos onscreen instantly - whether you're opening an image attachment to an email, or double-clicking on a JPEG from Windows Explorer. You can also flip through your photos fast, zoom in & zoom out, and even display your pictures in full screen for full dramatic effect.
ACDSee Showroom brings your photo memories right onto the desktop. Set a folder path to your favorite shots, then sit back and watch. A sleek movable window appears that displays your photos in sequence.
The new Calendar Events View allows you to display your photos in an organized event list with a unique caption for each event.

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ID Folder Protector
$47 - Fastlink2

ID Folder Protector is a very easy to use program, designed to help you maintain the privacy of your personal data. It locks, hides, encrypts and protects from viruses, Trojans and spyware, files and folders you wish to keep for your viewing only.

Main Features:

- Locks private folders
- Encrypts selected files
- Hides files extremely well
- Erases PC tracks
- Manages the bandwidth for an application

Detailed features:

- ID Folder Protector is a high performance locking program, keeping your personal files out of reach from any third party.
- Locks an indefinite number of files and folders. It keeps them away from other users, preserving them safe from being altered or deleted.
- Hides the main application from the tray, taskbar and desktop, from start and context menu, quick launch and even from add/remove programs in the control panel. You can select or unselect this option from inside the program only.
- Encrypts selected files so that the content is then modified and impossible to read by other users. It can be decrypted if the right password is introduced. You can set the number of password tries to three times with a shutdown to follow after unsuccessful attempts.
- Decrypts files that have previously been encrypted. By introducing the password, you can unblock the content of the files and can preserve an encrypted sample as well.
- Protects highly your encrypted files from any hacker attacks, by making them impossible to be accessed by anyone else but you. You can safely send them via e-mail without the risk of the content being corrupted.
- Erases PC tracks from typed address history. You can remove items from Internet Browser and can select which files to be deleted from Browser?s Cache files. You can do the same for cookies, downloads and history of visited URL?s.
- Has an easy to use, convenient graphic interface which requires minimal space on your disk to operate and run efficiently.

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Instant LOCK : Best In File Security
$0 - M.T.G. Security.

:This is a revolutionary file security software, totally protect, lock and hide all your private folders and precious files from other users and programs. You can unlock them with a simple click whenever you need. SAFETY - No one will ever know their existence. All files will be totally invisible and password protected all the time. Starting in Safe Mode, Dos mode or booting from another operating system, PC or system disk or deleting a folder or process will not change this UNLIKE ALL OTHER FOLDER LOCK, GUARD, SHIELD programs. Your files can not be deleted by erasing program folder or it can not be uninstalled without the correct password. PORTABILITY - It is fully portable, so you can copy or install to USB sticks, floppy, CDs and DVDs, notebooks, and network disks. Carry all your private documents, with you in a, safe secret folder! Works with all Windows versions (Windows XP 9x NT 200x Vista Me ) and all file FAT-FAT32-NTFS systems. Protection works perfectly even if files are taken from one PC or operating system to another computer on a USB removable disk, without the need to install any software. EASY TO USE - Just drag and drop your files or Lock folders in Windows Explorer via a right click. MULTI-USER - Multi password- multi user interface also protects critical files from novice users or viruses and trojans. FASTEST PROGRAM - Thanks to lightning fast file protection technology, you can lock or unlock gigabytes of data or thousands of files instantly! FREE DOWNLOAD ! Please download and enjoy, this award-wining program...

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Hara-Kiri
$25 - CyTeG (CyberTech group)

"Hara-Kiri" (ex "Dontouch") is a radical way to keep your confidential data away from unauthorized access by "self-destructing" The files that you specify.

How it works: While Windows is starting up it checks to see if you are pressing a combination of certain keys. If those keys are not being pressed, The files in a determined folders will be completely erased (without the possibility of reconstructing them with utilities like "UnErase" and "Undelete"). Once it deletes the folders it will delete itself from the disk so that the perpetrator has no idea that there was once sensitive data on the disk!

Uses: This program is useful in the case that your computer is stolen, Or if your computer is infiltrated by unwanted users.

Imagine several situation, when "Hara-Kiri" may be useful for you:

1. Your PC is stolen
Malefactor runs your computer with hope to profit by important secrets of your firm... But he don't know that it is necessary to press a combination of certain keys while Windows is starting up! And secrets silently and secretly are deletet from disc...

2. You are under suspicion that during your absence your wife/husband/colleagues/mammy (to underline the required) rummage in your private folders...
Install "Hara-Kiri" and... see the paragraph upper...

3. You are a secret agent and have dealings with confidential information... Suddenly enemies burst into your headquarters...
You, don't stopping skirmish :-), are clicking on "Hara-Kiri" shortcut or press hot key and... even tortures will not help them to profit by important secrets...

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Hide Those Folders
$0 - Hide Those Folders

Hide Those Folders is the best way for you to hide folders and hide files and keep sensitive and important data hidden from view. Hide files and hide folders from Children, Employers, Anyone else at all, even hackers! Hide Those Folders will hide your sensitive folders and hide files so that they can't be seen or accessed.

Hide Those Folders will hide your sensitive folders and hide files so that they can't be seen or accessed. Files stay hidden even if you turn on "View Hidden Files". Even links in your recent documents menu won't be able to find your hidden files or hidden folders.

For additional security and peace of mind:

Use a password to prevent anyone from accessing your files


Run Hide Those Folders in stealth mode so that no one knows it's there


Hide or show your sensitive files using hotkeys

Hide Those Folders is the best way to keep private files, really private and hide folders and hide files.

Features:


Add as many folders to the program as you want for quick hiding


Hide or Show individual folders or all folders at once


Prevents all file access, even from the command prompt, and even from hackers


Folders are removed from Windows Explorer entirely


Files in folders cannot be accessed, even from shortcuts or recent document lists


Run at Windows startup


Runs in stealth mode and doesn't show up in the Applications tab when you press Control-Alt-Delete


Hotkey for bringing the program out of Stealth Mode


Hotkey for hiding all folders


Hotkey for showing all folders


Password protection when program is opened


Password protection when program is brought out of stealth mode


Password protection when hotkeys are used to hide or show all folders

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