How to password-protect a folder with Folder Guard
You can use Folder Guard software to protect folders with passwords.
To lock a folder with a password: run Folder Guard and drag and drop the folder you want to protect to its window, or choose the Wizard command
To lock a folder with a password: run Folder Guard and drag and drop the folder you want to protect to its window, or choose the Wizard command
Choose a password and press OK. Note that a little yellow key sign has appeared next to the folder’s icon; this is the indication that this folder has an individual password assigned to it.
Now resume the protection (or apply the changes) and try to open the folder you have just protected through a Windows Explorer window. That is, click on the Windows Start button, then click on Computer (or My Computer) on the Start menu, and navigate to the folder you have locked. Finally, double-click on the protected folder in the right-hand window of Windows Explorer, and a password prompt should appear on the screen If you have entered the correct password, the folder should become unprotected and you should be able to work with the files and subfolders it contains without restrictions, as usual. However, if you don’t enter the correct password, the folder will remain protected.
(Note that in order to unlock the folder this way, you need to double-click on the folder in the right-hand panel of the Windows Explorer window. If you select the folder in the left-hand panel that shows the folder tree, the password prompt will not be shown and the Access denied message will be shown instead.)
Now, after you have unlocked the folder, try to close the Windows Explorer window, and you should see a prompt to lock the folder back: Reply Yes, and the folder will be locked back with the password again, and will remain inaccessible until you enter the correct password again. In addition to the basic password-protection described above, Folder Guard lets you customize the way it works to suit your specific requirements
You can direct Folder Guard to add the Lock and Unlock commands to the Windows shortcut menu. You can use them to lock and unlock the password-protected folders by right-clicking on them, instead of (or in addition to) double-clicking on the folders as described above.
You can direct Folder Guard to add the Lock and Unlock commands to the Windows shortcut menu. You can use them to lock and unlock the password-protected folders by right-clicking on them, instead of (or in addition to) double-clicking on the folders as described above.
- If you have locked many folders with passwords, you can make them all accessible at once by running Folder Guard and pausing the protection (you will need to enter your Master password, or course!) When you are done working with the protected folders, run Folder Guard and choose to resume the protection, to lock all folders at once with one click.
- Instead of locking files and folders with passwords, your can completely hide them!
