Let me take you back in the beginning of 2009 when my system crashed and I sent it to the shop for repair and next day when I went back to collect my system, what I saw? I saw the repairing guy was watching the movie that was stored on hard drive of my system. I deeply got vexed by his behavior because my system contained all my bank account details, family photographs, tax records, official documents, e-books that I purchased, lots of other important documents, and approximately ten usernames and passwords stored in Firefox using “Remember Password” option.

I was lucky since it was a very small service center with few inexperienced technicians who were merely interested in copying songs and movies that I have stored in my system. Luckily, they didn’t look for other files that I have in my system, but just imagine if it has gone into the wrong hands, what could have happened? They could have used it for illegal things. This is a very common scenario and many people around the globe are facing it. Now the question arises what you can do to prevent such things from happening again?

There are too many correct answers for this one like you can have a safe backup of your data, so that if something happens to your system, you can just disconnect the external hard drive and send the system for repair. But again, you cannot keep the external hard drive connected all the day particularly if you have some important files that you use regularly. In this case, you need a good locking software that can lock your files on the existing location and you can access them whenever you need it by simply entering correct password.

Folder Protect - Block Unauthorized Access

Folder Protect is the unique software that cannot only lock your files but also let you choose what type of security you want for particular file or folder. Folder Protect lets you password protect your files, folders, drives, installed programs and system wide extensions with four different levels of security. You can block access to your files, hide them, and make them write-protected and delete-proof as well. This is very important feature that all the protected item cannot be modified and deleted, that ensures complete security of protected items.

Other than four different levels of security, Folder Protect is designed to work even in Safe Mode and you can protect and / or unprotect your data in Safe Mode also. Furthermore, you can also choose an idle time after which your selected items get automatically protected.

The program also works in complete stealth, integrates with Windows Context Menu and is compatible with all Windows platforms and file systems i.e., Windows XP 32-bit, XP 64-bit, Vista 32-bit, Vista 64-bit, Windows 7, Windows 2000 and FAT, FAT32 and NTFS.

With Folder Protect installed on your computer, you can block unauthorized access to your files, folders, drives, installed programs and system wide extensions like *.avi, *.gif, *.jpeg, *.bmp, *.mp3, *.wmv, *.mpeg, *.doc and many more.

Using Folder Protect to block access is very easy and fun to do, let me put the whole method in simple steps:

• Download Folder Protect and installed it on your computer.
• Run the program to set and confirm password. Click ‘OK’.
• Step 1 asks you for the protection type, select ‘No Access’ and then choose what you want to protect. Click on the respective tab for instance if you want to protect files, click ‘Files’ or if you want to protect folders click ‘Folders’ and so on…
• When you’re done with the selection, click ‘Protect’.
• Once you click ‘Protect’ you’ll be able to see a list of your protected items, so that you can easily manage your protected items.