Folder Password Lock Free - Password protect folders. Program to Lock folders and hide lock folder them for Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP. How to hide files, folders, and drives.
So now if someone wants to find your stuff, they'll have to either be really patient and determined, or string together several lucky guesses. Even if they found your files, unless they know what they're doing they will yet again have to guess the correct file extensions. If you surround each step of the way with tons of random junk it will only serve to convolute the process.
It basically involves using a script to morph the folder into something completely different so that it's still visible, but nothing inside the folder is accessible. In order to view the data, you have to run another script to morph it back. Anyone who clicks on the folder will be brought to the Control Panel and simply think it is a shortcut. The other neat thing about this little trick is that any of the files or folders inside the hidden folder will not show up when you perform a search in Explorer.
Locking items makes them invisible, but a determined hacker with physical access to the computer could conceivably still get at the data, perhaps by booting to a non-Windows environment. For serious file protection, you need to create one or more encrypted lockers. These correspond to vaults in InterCrypto CryptoExpert 8 and to encrypted volumes in Cypherix PE.
By default, Folder Lock assigns drive letters starting with Z: and works down from there. When you open a locker, you can choose a specific drive letter, and optionally open the locker in read-only mode. I did not, however, find a way to permanently assign a specific drive letter to a locker, the way Cypherix and CryptoExpert permit. If you try to close a locker that contains open files, the program warns you to close those files first.
