Hide Folder

Introduction

Hide Folder is a comprehensive security solution for personal or publicly accessible computers running the Windows XP/2000/NT/Me/9x operating system. It is a program that ensures that only authorized people can access sensitive information on your computer. Hide Folder makes files and folders invisible, read-only or locked.

When Hide Folder hides a folder, the folder's contents will be invisible to all applications including Windows programs like Explorer, applications like Office, and even MS-DOS programs.

You will find Hide Folder indispensable if you share your computer with others and you don't want any changes made to your files. Or, if you don't want your parents to see some of your files. Or, if you are a network administrator and your users give you a headache messing the files up all the time. However you use Windows, you may have concerns about the security, privacy, or confidentiality of your files. And now you have a single, effective solution -- Hide Folder.

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How to Use

Before Hide Folder can protect the files or folders you have chosen, you must let it know the files or folders you want to protect, and how exactly you want to protect it. The way to supply this information to Hide Folder is by specifying the attributes of the folder you want to be protected.

1. Select folders or files you want to protect in the DirTree or FileList. The paths of selected files of folders will appear in the edit. You can also enter paths of files or folders directly in the edit.
2. click "Add" button. Paths of your selected files and folders will be listed in the Path List.
3. Left-Click the cells of the Path List to change the access of specified files or folders. you can also do it through context menu by right click the Path List.

• Access Scale:

  OPTION	DESCRIPTION
  Read	Cannot modify, delete specified files, or modify, delete, create files or folders in specified folders.
  Hide	User cannot list specified files or folders in applications(Including Explorer and MS-DOS).
  Lock	Specified files and folder cannot access by any applications.

• Browse: Navigate to the path of selected item of the Path List.
• Del: Delete selected item from the Path List.
• Clear: Remove all items in the Path List.
  

Note:

• Quickly show or hide folders from XP Shell:
  • Quickly hide a folder: Right click a folder and press Hide Folder Item from XP Shell to hide a folder.

• Quickly show all hided folders: Select Show All Special Folder Item from XP Shell to show all hided folders.



• Quickly hide all special folders: Select Hide All Special Folder Item from XP Shell to hide all special folders.



• You can use wild chars in path. For example, you can use "c:\download\*.txt" to protect all text files in the folder, or you can use "*.doc" to protect all Microsoft Word documents in you computer. However it is really dangerous if you don't know the exact meaning of your operations. So, please be careful when you use wildcard chars.