Three Hide Folder Utilities Intrduction.

Everybody has secrets, is it? People hope to keep bank serial number and password record in safe place; Parents wish to prevent children from tampering important documents and playing games and videos all the time. Webmasters need to protect web pages from being deleted or modified by hackers. Employers want to protect production systems from being destroyed by malicious people and programs, such as computer viruses, etc.

So, why you do not just hide the folder? Let me introduce the hide folder softwares.

The first one is "Hide Folder", this software is the big name of this kind software. Except hiding folder, hiding files, hide drive, it also can keep protected folders inaccessible or accessible in read-only mode. You can get the software from http://www.hide-folder.com/

The second one is "Hide Folder XP", this software is very cabinet, but function is some simple. You can get the software from http://www.fspro.net/hfxp/

The third one it "Hide Folder Flex", this software is very powerful and with high stability. To prevent others delete the program files and reg keys to stop protection mechanism, this software hide the software self thoroughly too, include shortcuts, program files, register table keys. The only way user load the console is press hot keys. You can get the software from http://www.sheerflex.com/

Next is the main features of the three software:

---------------------- Hide Folder --------- Hide Folder XP -------- Hide Folder Flex
Hides folders -------- Yes ----------------- Yes ------------------- Yes
Hides files ---------- Yes ----------------- Yes ------------------- Yes
Hides local drives --- Yes ----------------- No -------------------- Yes
Encryption ----------- Yes ----------------- No -------------------- Yes
batch Encryption ----- Yes ----------------- No -------------------- Yes
Password Protection -- Yes ----------------- Yes ------------------- Yes
Hot keys ------------- Yes ----------------- No -------------------- Yes
Hide self ------------ Yes ----------------- No -------------------- Yes
Stability ------------ No ------------------ Yes ------------------- Yes
Multilingual --------- Yes ----------------- No -------------------- Yes
Performance ---------- No ------------------ Yes ------------------- Yes

Myself I enjoyed BestCrypt by Jetico (www.jetico.ca); it creates a 'virtual container' which is encrypted through one of many many available encryption standards. This container can be at anytime "secured" and then transported off of your drive. you can "mount" this container as a "virtual disk" for easy maintenance.

This works like a PGPDisk however Jetico hasn't had issues with US Authorities which required "backdoors" for unlocking of containers.

I think it is a good idea, but if the size of files protected is very large, for example, 100M, 500M, 2G, how about the performance ?

Just be cool like me and use PGPdisk whole disk encryption. Then all encryption is transparent to you, and all of your huge files are safe and secure.

Your disk space must be not more than 10G, otherwise the encryption process will take you too much time.

The encryption process is transparent and isn't resource intensive. You can still use your machine while the drive is being encrypted, and you never have to encrypt the drive again once you've finished; PGP encrypts all new files.

pgp!

you know, i went and looked for your key on the pgp keyservers, and i was unable to locate one. that's not cool.

it's on a need to know basis.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256

That's cold.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGP Desktop 9.0.2 (Build 2424)

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8DAx/V6PUQmMwZLqpHcwMpDM4NBUWMhq5a+Vl9YdAahQq+FSp1VZkraMx6/M+6iw
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DrI1scNgH3I=
=GBOV
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You can make the volume any size you'd like, the benefit is it's transportable unlike ghost's PGPDisk all disk encryption ...

But just like Ghost's all disk encryption it encrypts files as you insert them into the archive (or disk).

I think PGPdisk is cool, but if somebody else delete the encrypted files, although he can not see the files but you can't see the files too.

You could do that with any file, encrypted or not.