How to password-protect a folder with Folder Guard
You can use Folder Guard software to protect folders with passwords.
To lock a folder with a password: run Folder Guard and drag and drop
the folder you want to protect to its window, or choose the Wizard
command:
Choose a password and press OK. Note that a little yellow key sign has
appeared next to the folder’s icon; this is the indication that this
folder has an individual password assigned to it.
Now resume the protection (or apply the changes) and try to open the
folder you have just protected through a Windows Explorer window. That
is, click on the Windows Start button, then click on Computer (or My
Computer) on the Start menu, and navigate to the folder you have locked.
Finally, double-click on the protected folder in the right-hand window
of Windows Explorer, and a password prompt should appear on the screen:
If you have entered the correct password, the folder should become
unprotected and you should be able to work with the files and subfolders
it contains without restrictions, as usual. However, if you don’t enter
the correct password, the folder will remain protected.
(Note that in order to unlock the folder this way, you need to
double-click on the folder in the right-hand panel of the Windows
Explorer window. If you select the folder in the left-hand panel that
shows the folder tree, the password prompt will not be shown and the
Access denied message will be shown instead.)
Now, after you have unlocked the folder, try to close the Windows
Explorer window, and you should see a prompt to lock the folder back:
Reply
Yes, and the folder will be locked back with the
password again, and will remain inaccessible until you enter the correct
password again.
In addition to the basic password-protection described above, Folder Guard lets you customize the way it works to suit your specific requirements:
- You can direct Folder Guard to add the Lock and Unlock
commands to the Windows shortcut menu. You can use them to lock and
unlock the password-protected folders by right-clicking on them, instead
of (or in addition to) double-clicking on the folders as described
above
- If you have locked many folders with passwords, you can make them
all accessible at once by running Folder Guard and pausing the
protection (you will need to enter your Master password, or course!)
When you are don working with the protected folders, run Folder Guard
and choose to resume the protection, to lock all folders at once with
one click.
- Instead of locking files and folders with passwords, your can completely hide them!
And more! Please feel free to download the fully functional
evaluation version and give it a try. If you don’t like it, use Windows
Control Panel to uninstall it: no strings attached.
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