Under Preferences, you can find options to change the password and language. To unlock and show protected folders, you need to run SecretFolder again, enter the password, select the folder that you want to unlock, and then click the Unlock button. You can either click the Add button to browse to the folder that you want to protect or simply drag and drop the folder to SecreatFolder’s window.

There is no limit on the number or size of folders that can be protected, meaning you can protect any number of folders with any size.Īs is the case with other folder locking software out there, after setting up SecretFolder, you just need to add folders that you want to hide and protect. SecretFolder supports NTFS, FAT, FAT32, and exFAT file systems. And if someone gets access to your PC, s/he can’t access your protected folders by uninstalling the software as the program prompts to enter the password to get uninstalled. The feature is really important as there are many applications available to reset the Windows account password and bypass the logon screen. During our test, even popular software uninstallers couldn’t uninstall SecretFolder without the password. As you would have guessed by now, a user needs to enter the password even to uninstall this software, which means that someone can’t access your protected folders just by gaining access to your PC. One of the features I am really impressed with is Protected Uninstall. The good thing is that users can’t access protected folders even from the Command Prompt, a very useful feature indeed. When you protect a folder using SecretFolder, the folder will not appear in the Windows Explorer (File Explorer).

Password protect folder software