Protect Your Privacy with Secrecy File and Folder Hider
June 13, 2008 – 4:39 pmEveryone has their own secrets and in this digital age, we store some of them inside folders in our computers. One will never know when somebody else will use his computer and accidentally found embarrassing pictures that he forgets to hide or delete. To save yourselves from this kind of situation, one thing you can do is to hide your Windows files and folders from prying eyes. One simple tool to do it is to use Secrecy File and Folder Hider.
Secrecy File and Folder hider is really a simple application to boot. It runs on Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME, NT, 2000 and XP. Once installed, you are presented with an interface where you can browse for folders that you want to hide. To hide a folder, select on it and click the “Lock” button. Once a folder is locked (equals hidden), the files inside it cannot be renamed, deleted, read, or seen by anyone.
You can unhide a locked folder by selecting the folder again and select “Unlock“. Pretty straightforward isn’t it?
However, there is one glaring disadvantage. If you don’t hide the desktop icon and startup folders of this tool, anybody can hide or unhide folders with ease; because Secrecy lacks a master access password. Moreover, you can only hide files that reside in folders and not a single instance of a file.
Other than that, Secrecy File and Folder Hider served its purpose. If you are looking for another alternative to this tool, try Free Hide Folder.
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8 Responses to “Protect Your Privacy with Secrecy File and Folder Hider”
The tool is good but why didn’t they have an option for password
By Madhur Kapoor on Jun 14, 2008
@Madhur: Yeah, that is quite a big problem for me too.
By Syahid A. on Jun 14, 2008
Overall, this application is good. A password feature would have made it better.
By Haris on Jun 15, 2008
I believe Madhur is right, lacking of a master password protection is a big disadvantage of this tool.
By phaoloo on Feb 15, 2009
I also made an encoder which is very basic, and it can be used for keeping passwords safe or transmitting small information safely over the internet by encoding and decoding it.
By Endoder on Mar 8, 2009
Thanks its really help full. We can private our documents.
By Jimmy on Mar 3, 2011
The tool is really good but why did not they have an option for password
By Hamza on Apr 24, 2011
this application is really good but password feature would have made it better.
By William Tooke on May 5, 2011