Almost every computer user keeps files and folders that are personal, private and confidential, or important to be preserved as undeletable. You may save passwords or login information in the 'My Documents' folder, or have files that are inappropriate for kids or other family members, or files with valuable information that can be stolen. Such files and folders need security protection so that intruders or unauthorized users cannot access, read, view, copy, move or delete them. If files and folders are left unprotected it can lead to theft, data loss and breaches of your privacy, costing you embarrassment, money, lost data, maybe even your job.

What types of benefits do I have using it?

If you are a casual PC user, and want to protect family photos, videos, pictures, financial information, passwords, personal letters and information that would be inappropriate for your kids, friends or co-workers.

If you are a business person or an IT professional, protect your own and company projects, source codes, trade secrets and other intellectual property from accidental deletions and theft.

If you want to prevent viruses, hacker tools, trojans, malware, spyware, malicious programs and harmful scripts accessing your important files.

If you do not want to share your files and folders with the people that are connected through a network or cable without your permission.

If you want to prevent illegal copy or duplication of your copyrighted material and secret stuff on your hard drive, partitions or portable devices.

If you want to secure a notebook computer so that if it gets misplaced, lost or stolen, all your important files and personal folders are inaccessible.

If you want to protect mp3s, videos, pics, books or application files downloaded from KaZaa, Morpheus, iMesh or other P2P programs.

If you have text files, word documents, spreadsheets or presentations that can be stolen in your absence, while you are unaware of it.

If you want to protect data on a portable device such as a USB Flash Drive, Memory Stick, CD-RW, Zip Drive or Floppy Disk, so that you can transfer it from one computer to another or archive it without any fear of losing it.

Most of all, if you want to have complete peace of mind and guarantee that your data is protected and secure from peeping eyes.

Why Folder Lock? How is it unique?

Folder Lock not only makes your files and folders fully inaccessible, unreadable, unrenamable, undeletable, unmovable and hidden, it also removes the inconvenient hassle of having to lock up or encrypt each file or folder on your computer separately. With Folder Lock, you keep all the data you want to secure in one location - your 'Locker' - and protection is automatic. Users can't delete the Folder Lock program folder and they can't uninstall the program without the correct password.

You can customize this folder protection software to get the balance of speed and security that’s most important to you. Locking is very fast. It takes only a second or two, even if you have gigabytes of files to be protected. If speed is less important, you have other options. Scrambling offers a higher level of security, with speeds depending on the number of the files in your Locker. The Encryption option, which uses 256-bit Blowfish technology, is the strongest security of all. And, under all three options - locked, scrambled or encrypted - files and folders are locked using five different methods of locking (patent pending), two of which are unique and unknown even to many advanced programmers.

Folder Lock also works flawlessly on a portable device like USB Flash Drive, external hard drive, pen drives, Zip drives, floppy disks, even CD-RW. All you do is copy the program folder of Folder Lock (by default 'Program Files\Folder Lock' to that portable device, keep your files in the locker folder it creates, and lock them up. This gives you the power of taking your password protected files anywhere you want without the fear of data loss or theft. Unlike other programs, our folder protection software prompts you to enter your correct password, if you move your portable device from one computer to another, meaning portable security.

Your locked files are protected in DOS Mode and Safe Mode. They are protected if you boot your computer with a floppy or bootable CD, and even when you switch from one platform to another, so that files protected on your Windows XP will be protected in Windows 98 also. This is a break-through. No locking software can protect files on all Windows platforms or real DOS Mode. Furthermore, this file and folder protection software has a feature that can Lock your PC from intruders, so that they can't do anything harmful when you are away.