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Folder Guard

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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.

Why choose Folder Guard?

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 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.

Note: 30 days trial version.

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What's new in this version:

Folder Guard 24.11.0
- This update corrects a problem that in some situations could cause a BSOD during OS startup


Folder Guard 24.10.0
This update offers several improvements and corrections:
- You can now use Folder Guard to block programs from starting while the protection of Folder Guard is in effect
- A new option Block programs for trusted users has been added that controls whether trusted users are allowed to start the blocked programs
- The items on the Trusted list can now be selected using the check marks
- A problem that prevented the use of the Options view when a language other than English was selected has been corrected
- Several other minor improvements and corrections have been made


Folder Guard 24.8.0
This update offers several improvements and corrections:
- The ghost folders can now be password-protected. (However, such folders must be specified using exact paths, masks are not supported.)
- The simple masks for restricting access and visibility of the ghost folders can now contain star characters at the end of each path component
- Several other minor improvements and corrections have been made


Folder Guard 23.5.0
- Change log not available for this version


Folder Guard 23.2.0
- Change log not available for this version


Folder Guard 22.12.0
- When creating or changing a password that is too short, Folder Guard now displays a warning and offers to choose a longer password
- The Ukrainian language has been added
- Several minor improvements and corrections have been made


Folder Guard 22.10.0
- The digital signatures of the executable files have been updated according to the latest security requirements of Windows 11 and Windows 10


Folder Guard 22.9.0
This update offers several improvements and corrections:
- When a shortcut is chosen to be protected with Folder Guard, the user is now prompted to select whether to protect the shortcut itself or the target
- The reparse points can now be protected with Folder Guard, too
- When enabling or disabling the stealth mode, the visibility of the taskbar notification icon of Folder Guard is now controlled automatically, too, along with other Folder Guard shortcuts
- Several minor improvements and corrections have been made


Folder Guard 22.5.0
- A new option has been added to record the file system events in a log file for troubleshooting purposes
- Several other minor improvements and corrections have been made


Folder Guard 22.3.0
This update offers several improvements and corrections:
- Native support for the ARM 64-bit processor architecture has been implemented
- New command line switches have been added: /SILENT and /VERBOSE
- Several minor improvements and corrections have been made


Folder Guard 21.4.0
This update offers several improvements and corrections:
- The temporary passwords with expiration dates can now be used to pause the protection or unlock the pasword-protected folders
- Several minor improvements and corrections have been made


Folder Guard 20.10.3
- This update corrects a problem that was causing system crashes in some situations


Folder Guard 20.10
- This update corrects a problem that was causing crashes in some situations with third-party storage solutions used alongside of Folder Guard


Folder Guard 20.9
Improvements and corrections:
- The Traditional Chinese language has been added to the list of the available languages
- Several minor improvements and corrections have been made


Folder Guard 20.1
Improvements and corrections:
- The Catalan language has been added to the list of the available languages
- The Trusted Programs list can now contain masks to specify classes of the paths that should be trusted
- The Trusted Programs list can now contain UNC paths specifying programs located on other network computers
- A problem has been corrected that prevented paths longer than 64 characters to be added to the Trusted Programs list
- If Folder Guard is installed using an MSI package from the Administrator's Kit, it is now prevented from being uninstalled by the end user via the Control Panel (It can still be uninstalled via the Group Policy or by running the msiexec utility)
- Several other minor improvements and corrections have been made


Folder Guard 19.9
- This update offers several performance improvements that make certain system backup operations faster


Folder Guard 19.7
This update offers several improvements and corrections:
- A problem has been corrected that prevented Folder Guard from working properly when a very large number of different folders were configured to be protected.
- Several other minor improvements and corrections have been made.


Folder Guard 19.6
- This update offers a correction that should prevent system crashes that could occur in some situations when browsing to the network locations protected with Folder Guard

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