Folder Guard is a powerful computer security software that you can use to control access to files, folders, and other Windows resources, such as Control Panel, Start Menu, and so on. 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 the Control Panel, and more.

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Hide Folders XP is a simple but ingenious program for Microsoft Windows XP and 2000 users. Every day we trust our personal files to a computer. Who knows how many people will want to get access to them? If you share your computer with co-workers, children, spouse or your computer is always connected to the Internet, your private files are under threat of being revealed.

With Hide Folders XP you can easily protect any number of folders and files on your computer. You can select any file or folder to protect from the program, drag-and-drop them from Windows Explorer into the Hide Folders XP window or just right click mouse button on a file or folder in Explorer and select "Hide & Lock with Hide Folders XP" from the drop-down menu.

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Dark Files can help you keep your files protected. You can choose who gets access to what files on your computer. This program provides three levels of protection to suit any user : "Hidden", "Read Only", "Full Control".

Dark Files can work with Network folders and fully supports protection of removable media (such as floppies, CD Roms, DVD, ZIP and some SCSI and RAID drives) on all platforms. This easy-to-use program allows you to protect your files and folders (including subdirectories) in various ways. You can hide them or prevent others from deleting, renaming, executing, or modifying your files in any way. The Wildcard feature allows you to specify which files you want to protect (for example, all EXE or DLL files).

The file system protection works independently of the program , so if you even close the program the file protection will still work. Built-in support for multiple user interface allows you to use Dark Files without any change on multi user systems.

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EfreeSoft Boss Key allows you to hide active program windows immediatlly using a hot key!You can hide the browser windows, folder windows, applications windows, all your desktop icons and taskbar when your boss or anyone else you don't want to see your screens comes in. It's speed is highly optimized to allow you react as quickly as possible to any threat that appears.

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This program is intended for those who want to hide from an another's eye that he does on the computer. Click a hot key - the active window is hidden. Click again - window is shown.

Shortcut keys:

• Ctrl. + Space: Hide active window
• Ctrl. + Alt. + Space: Show hidden window
• Ctrl. + Alt. + X: Close Koperfield program
• Ctrl. + Alt. + Z: Close active window

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Download Anti Boss Key and protect your privacy by hiding the windows on your screen. It will instantly cover all (or some) programs on your screen with a single key stroke in order to prevent uninvited persons from seeing them. It will serve you well at your work place or at home. By hiding windows you have the freedom to protect your privacy and hide sensitive information from prying eyes.

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Magic Folders makes any folder you choose and all the files in that folder completely invisible to others, even on a network. Your invisible folders and files can't be deleted, viewed, modified, or run. For all practical purposes they don't exist. Use Magic Folders to protect your finances, taxes, and personal documents. Others won't know these files exist, and they won't be able to accidentally delete or modify them either.

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Magic Folders makes any folder you choose and all the files in that folder completely invisible to others, even on a network. Your invisible folders and files can't be deleted, viewed, modified, or run. For all practical purposes they don't exist. Use Magic Folders to protect your finances, taxes, and personal documents. Others won't know these files exist, and they won't be able to accidentally delete or modify them either.

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BossKey is a simple virtual desktop program. Create hot-keys to switch between the desktops and have one set of windows/applications on one and a different set of windows/applications on another and flip between them instantly with a single keypress. Up to 10 virtual desktops can be defined and windows can be designated always visible.

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Shareview - is the complete network assistant solution, which consists of a monitor of network connections to your computer, firewall, network utils, a shared resources manager, a traffic monitor and some features that make tough operation simple.

Shareview exists as two different editions: Professional and Lite. Shareview Professional is more powerful network manager, which supports advanced firewall fules and more network utilities. Please see the main differences between these editions at the bottom of this page.

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iPig creates a secure "tunnel" that protects your inbound and outbound communications (Email, Web, IM, VOIP, calls, FTP, etc.) at any Wi-Fi hotspot or wired network. iPig works with any kind of Internet connection (Wifi, WLAN, wired ethernet).

iPIG shields your data from even the most sophisticated methods of online spying and snooping like the "Evil twin attacks".

In addition, your sensitive information is not only protected between your computer and the wireless access point you're using, but all the way to iOpus' secure connection servers deep in the Internet. This ensures that your data can't be easily hijacked through the air and at the point it transitions to a "wired" Ethernet connection.

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Universal Shield encrypts and hides files, folders, or entire drives. Protected items are completely invisible until the password is supplied. Protection remains in place even when the drive is removed and placed in a different computer.

The program will optionally run in a hotkey-activated stealth mode, leaving no evidence that anything is hidden. In addition it can restrict access to such system elements as Control Panel, My Documents, and the system time.

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Hide and lock your local, network, Floppy and USB drives as well as disable the AutoRun feature for specific drive types with this password-protected security utility. Fabulously designed, this software offers you both a great functionality and simplicity in a very elegant manner. The main window of the program groups the main settings by drives, and shows you all possible drive letters.

If you do not want the removable media to appear and be accessible in My Computer after it is inserted, just hide and lock all the drive letters you do not normally use. The AutoRun feature can be disabled for specific drives or drive types. A password protection can be applied to the program to prevent your users form changing the security settings you enforce.

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We've all had embarrassing moments where the boss walks by and we're looking at something we shouldn't be.

Magic Boss key immediately cleans your desktop, taskbar and any other program or folder that you may have open at any one time. You can do this without even touching your keyboard. By clicking with the two mouse buttons at the same time you can remove all open windows, including Magic Boss. There's no real noticeable difference in the performance of your PC whilst Magic Boss is working although if you're running a lot of applications at one time, you might find that Boss Key does not kick in as soon as you'd like it to. In which case, the boss will see both what you're looking at plus see that you've got Boss Key installed so you're running a bit of a risk. The one thing it does not do as well is remove icons in the system tray so make sure you've got nothing dodgy running that shows up there.

This is one easy way to beat the boss although don't rely on it if you've got lots of applications running at once.

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Sharing a PC is never a good idea if you've got sensitive or confidential information that you don't want strangers, or even loved ones, to access.

My favourite way to protect myself is simply to create another profile for other users on my system but this is not always possible if Windows isn't working properly. In which case, one good option is to lock those files and folders that you don't want accessed by prying eyes. System Vault simply can't hide files and folders but it can require users to enter a password before accessing them. It also allows you to remove common files or folders that are accessed from your MRU files on your PC so that anyone using your machine, can't see what you've just been looking at.

One word of warning though - if you install the program, uninstall it and then reinstall it again, your protected files are completely reset. This means that anyone that really wants to access your files merely has to uninstall the program so it's a good idea to use some kind of system protection system in addition to this program. However, the developers advise that to avoid losing your directories and files when re-installing the application in future you should export your list of paths and import them again on reinstallation.

A simple way to protect your files but be warned that it's not very secure any anyone who uninstalls it will have access to your files.

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