Hide Folders XP

Hide Folders XP is a simple but ingenious program for Microsoft Windows XP and 2000 users. Every day we trust our personal files to a computer. Who knows how many people will want to get access to them? If you share your computer with coworkers, children, spouse or your computer is always connected to the Internet, your private files are under threat of being revealed. Since 2001, our Hide Folders software products help our users to hide private files and folders from prying eyes. Features and benefits Unlimited number of files and folders to protect 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 Difference from internal Windows XP data protection features A lot of 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: 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. It is impossible to hide folder or file with standard Windows XP facilities. Only file and folder lock is possible. There is no way to make folder invisible but accessible which is helpful for different security tasks like logging