2. How to Password protect folders and files?

Folder Protect is a unique program that offers ‘Data in Use Protection’ which is a new concept in data security. It lets you password protect folders and files in such a way that it will be accessible yet completely secure from being deleted or modified. This is a unique feature because most of the time you may need to give access of your data to others, and in this scenario you would not like to get your data being modified, copied, moved or deleted. Folder Protect has solved this problem by letting you customize type of security for your data.

Folder Protect allows you password protect files, folders, drives, installed programs and popular extensions with four different levels of security to make your files and folders inaccessible, hidden, delete proof or write protected.

Follow these simple steps to password protect folders and files:

• • Download Folder Protect and install it on your computer.
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• • Run the program and it will ask you to set and confirm a password. Make sure to set a strong password which is easy to remember but hard to guess.
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• • Click 'OK' to log in the application and then click 'Add' button to add files, folders, drives, program and extensions.
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• • When you click 'Add' button, Folder Protect's Wizard screen will appear showing you two steps:
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• Step 1: Choose Protection Method
• Step 2: Add Items You Wish to Protect
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• • Both of these steps are self-explanatory. Choose Protection Method step asks you how do you wish to protect your files and folders, and it gives you four different methods of protection you can choose according to your need and feasibility. You can select No Access, No Visible, No Delete or No Write to make your data completely inaccessible, hidden, delete proof or write proof respectively. Add Items You Wish to Protect step allows you to protect files, folders, drives, masks or programs.
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• • Select the protection type that you want to apply on your files and folders.
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• • Click ‘Files’ tab if you wish to protect files, and ‘Folders’ tab if you want to protect complete folders. When you click the respective tab, Folder Protect shows you a folder tree containing all the files and folders so that you can choose which file or folder you want to protect.
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• • Select files and folders and add them to your locking list by using ‘Add’ button. Drag and drop is also supported.
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• • When you’re done with the selection, click ‘Protect’.
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• • Once you click ‘Protect’ you’ll be able to see the list of your protected items, from where you can easily manage your protected items.