Secure Folder is a tiny piece of software for Windows users that can help you secure your folders easily. This free software can hide, lock and encrypt your folders. 

Reach Secure Folder by following the link. Installing the software is a breeze. It will walk you through the installation steps. 

Launch the software once you finish the installation process. You will get to see a window as shown below:

Here you will be providing a password which you will have to remember to access your folder back. It will ask you the credentials every time you access Secure Folder.

Interface:

The interface is quite simple and intuitive. There are three modes of folder protection – lock, hide and encrypt.

Click the ‘add’ button to add the files that you need to protect and select the appropriate mode of folder protection.

‘Lock’ – As the name says, it just locks the file and will not allow anyone else to open it.

‘Hide’ – This mode actually hides the folder from anyone else who is using the machine

‘encrypt’ – Secure Folder uses AES encryption algorithm to protect your folder.

One can use any one or all the three of these options.

Features:

• Easy to use interface
• Uses AES encryption
• Protection modes – lock, hide and encrypt.

Secure Folder does a neat job in what it claims to be. The software won’t even allow a secured folder to be moved or copied or deleted. And I expected it to keep me off from renaming the secured folder too. But actually it did allow me to rename it, but that cost me my folder. I couldn’t recover it back. The best recommendation would be to go with 7 mode protection (select all ‘lock’, ‘hide’ and ‘encrypt’) so that no one other than you can even view the folder.

Also make sure that you are not even accidentally uninstalling the software when you still have any secured folders in your machine. 

The software requires .NET framework 2.0 or better to work.

Home Page: click here

Works with: Windows (32 & 64 bit editions)

Paid/Free: Free