Folder Guard Free Download 21.4.0

Folder Guard is a powerful computer security program that you can use to control access to files, folders, and other Windows resources. You can use Folder Guard to lock your personal files and folders with passwords, to stop other users from peeking into your records. You can even completely hide your private folders from virtually all applications, and such folders would remain invisible until you enter a valid password. You can also protect sensitive system files from modification or destruction, disable access to the removable drives, restrict access to Control Panel, and more.

You can protect with password virtually any folder, allowing only authorized users to open the protected files or folders. You can password-protect an unlimited number of folders, each with its own password, or you can use the Master Password of Folder Guard to unprotect them all at once.

How to set up Folder Guard to stop downloading from the Internet

So you don’t want users of your shared computer to download programs from the Internet? Yet, you don’t want to block the Internet access completely and you would rather allow the users to be able to browse websites and use email, etc.? Folder Guard has a tool for that.

To achieve such a goal, you need to prevent users from saving new executable files to the computer. At the same time, you want the users to be able to use the existing executable files, already installed by the administrator.

Folder Guard – Folder Hide Software Features

It can hide your personal folders from other users.
You can set up the program to hide your private folders (or make them appear empty). The folder would be hidden from virtually any program, including Windows Explorer, Office, MS-DOS programs, etc.

It can password-protect and restrict access to file folders
You can password-protect any document folder to prevent access to your personal files without the intruder knowing the password. You can set up the app to allow only certain users to change the computer settings with the Control Panel while denying that to other users.

It can control access to programs and files
You can prevent other users (even the administrators) from using the system tools that can mess up your Windows installation while allowing such use for yourself or someone who knows the Master password. You can also designate the backup programs as the trusted ones, allowing them to back up your protected files in the background without asking you for the password every time.

It can lock access to the USB, CD-ROM, and other removable drives
You can configure Folder Guard to allow or deny access to the removable drives, restricting the user’s ability to run or install unauthorized programs on your computer.

The app is suitable for a wide range of computer security tasks
You can stop other users of your computer from peeking into your personal files. You can protect the system files and folders from destruction by cyber-vandals. You can allow specific users to run a program while denying it to others. You can allow users to store their documents on removable drives while preventing them from using unauthorized programs on those drives.

It protects your files without encrypting them
There is no risk of losing your documents if you lose your encryption key: with Folder Guard all your files remain intact, without modification of any kind.

It lets you quickly enable or disable the protection via a “hotkey”
You can choose a specific keyboard combination as your program hotkey, and quickly enable or disable the protection of your computer. Of course, the hotkey is protected with your password, so only you can use it!

It can operate in “stealth mode”
You can set up Folder Guard to operate in the stealth mode, to hide its own files and shortcuts from being seen by other users.

It supports easy recovery in case of emergency
If you forget your password or experience other problems, simply use the Emergency Recovery Utility (free download) to quickly restore access to your protected folder.

It works with drives of any format
If your computer can handle it, Folder Guard can protect it. Unlike Windows itself that can only provide access control for the NTFS disks, It can protect files and folders on any file system supported by your computer, including NTFS, exFAT, and FAT/FAT32.

You can set visibility to empty and hidden, as well as the possibility to modify permissions either to read-only or no access at all. This can be done with any folder even from removable storage devices.

The application lets you browse the content of your hard disk drive through its integrated file explorer for enhanced ease of access. Moreover, you can switch to a view that only displays protected folders for better management.

A useful feature lets you handle filters. For example, you can set all files of a specified extension to be inaccessible or protected with a password of your choice.

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