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Hide folders in Windows easily with Free Hide Folders

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
by knight17

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Sometimes the best way to keep people from prying into your personal folders is to keep the folders’ existence secret from the get-go. That’s easy to do with Cleanersoft.com’s Free Hide Folders.

The program lets you make any folder (and its subfolders and other contents) completely invisible with a just a little pointing and clicking. (Note: In Windows Vista, the program may not completely hide some known folders, like Music in the (MY?)Documents folder.) Free Hide Folders is password protected, so you are safe even if the bad guys know you are using the product. It also lets you back up your folders’ hidden states in case you have a system problem. And as the name says, it’s free.[tags] Windows, Privacy, Software, Security [/tags]

6 Comments

Techzi » Blog Archive » Download of the Day: Free Hide Folders (Windows)

April 3rd, 2007
at 2:15pm

[...] Unlike Windows’ Hidden option in an items’ Properties, which doesn’t provide much for real hiding (you can choose to always view hidden files and folders in Folder options, which makes it pretty useless), Free Hide Folders actually makes the folders totally invisible. To view your hidden folders, you need to enter a password then unhide it. If you really want to lock up your data tight, I’d recommend trying out TrueCrypt, but if you want a quick and simple hidden folder solution, this looks like a useful tool. Free Hide Folders is donationware, Windows only. — Adam Pash Free Hide Folders [via Lockergnome] [...]

Kolz Blog » Blog Archive » Download of the Day: Free Hide Folders (Windows)

April 3rd, 2007
at 9:13pm

[...] Free Hide Folders [via Lockergnome] [...]

Everstrike

April 4th, 2007
at 12:41am

Another solution is available here:
http://www.everstrike.com/

Lock Folder XP:
http://www.everstrike.com/lock_folder.htm

Universal Shield:
http://www.everstrike.com/shield.htm

Santa Rosa Steve

April 4th, 2007
at 9:33pm

I doubt that Free Hide Folders will deter the FBI or a determined hacker, but I do think it’s likely to keep a casual snoop from learning my bank balance. It’s extremely simple to set up and use. The program’s backup function seems to save the password data, not your files. To be safe, save them somewhere (not on your PC) first. I burned mine to a CD.
-Steve