You can download it from this link: http://www.newsoftwares.net/download/folderlock7-en/folder-lock-en.exe
How to Lock USB Drives, Memory Sticks, Network Drives or Pen Drives?
To protect files on USB Flash Drives,
Memory Sticks, Network, Pen or Zip Drives, click 'Browse' and select the option
'Move to portable disk'. Then read the instructions and click the 'Next' button.
Now you will be able to select the drive(s) in which you want protection. You
can select these drive(s) by clicking the check boxes next to them. You may
select one or more, normally you need to move the program to one drive, like
your USB drive, which shows under the list for the name of the drive. Then you
can click the 'Move It' button, this will move the program folder of Folder Lock
to that drive. See the images below for clarification:
Once you've successfully moved Folder Lock to other drive, run
the program from that drive, make sure you run the executable file inside it and
keep the files in the 'Locker' folder that it creates and then click the 'Lock'
button to lock your private files in your removable drive like USB drive, Memory
Stick or a network drive. Locking files by keeping them in the 'Locker' folder
makes them portably secure. This kind of locking only works if you keep files in
the 'Locker', not when you use the browse option for locking. You can take your
removable disks anywhere like, once the files are locked inside the 'Locker' on
that drive, no computer running any operating system can access those files if
you move it from one PC to another and you are not required to install anything
on other computer.
How to Lock Floppy
Disks?
In case of Floppy Disks, click 'Browse' and select the option
'Move to portable disk'. Then read the instructions and click the 'Next' button.
Now you will be able to select the drive(s) in which you want protection. You
can select these drive(s) by clicking the check boxes next to them. After that
click the 'Move It' button, this will move the program EXE of Folder Lock to
that drive. Now you can run the program from that drive and keep the files in
the 'Locker' folder it creates and lock them up.
How to Lock CD-RW
and DVD-RW?
In case of CD-RW and DVD-RW, we recommend you to use a
CD-RW/DVD-RW burning software to copy the program folder of Folder Lock, while
the 'Locker' is open, to CD-RW drive and continue locking files in its 'Locker'.
It is important that the 'Locker' folder with all files and folders contained in
it should be open when you burn the program folder of Folder Lock to a CD-RW or
DVD-RW. Note: Do not burn the files when the 'Locker' folder is locked. It is a
must that you burn the program folder of Folder Lock on to the CD-RW or DVD-RW
in an unlocked state without locking it previously.
How to know which
Folder Lock instance is running from a particular
drive/disk/directory?
When Folder Lock is run more than once from different locations, like one instance running from USB Drive, the other one running from you hard disk, it can become a bit cumbersome to know exactly which instance belongs to which drive, this information can be given if you keep your mouse pointer over the system tray icon of Folder Lock until the tooltip appears, this tells you which instance of the program you are running.
How to use
it for multiple users with different passwords?
You can have multiple passwords for different users by following this procedure. Install the program in C:\Folder Lock1 once setup is complete (do not launch the program, uncheck it, or if you have lauched the program, then don't set a password yet.) now run the setup again to install the program in C:\Folder Lock2 Once you've installed the program on two different locations like this. Go to C:\Folder Lock1 and run the Folder Lock.exe Then set a password, lets say "pass1" and then exit the program once the password has been set.
After that go to C:\Folder Lock2 and again run the Folder
Lock.exe from this location. Now the program will ask you to enter password
instead of showing you the set a password screen. So don't get confused, enter
"pass1" (which was the last password used) in it and then click okay. After that
click the options button and click "Change Password" and change the password to
"pass2", once password is changed, exit the program.
Now Folder Lock1 and Folder Lock2 will use two different
passwords. Folder Lock1 will accept "pass1" and Folder Lock2 will accept "pass2"
everytime. which means Folder Lock1 will not open its locker folder "pass2" and
vise versa.
Similarily, if you install Folder Lock again by running the
setup to C:\Folder Lock3 and run the Folder Lock.exe from this program path, the
program will ask you the last password you set. In our case, the last password
was "pass2" So enter "pass2" and then again go to options and click change
password and chnage the password to "pass3"
Instead of having 'Folder Lock1', 'Folder Lock2' etc. as your
main folders, you can have the users' names as the parent folders, to
differenciate between each other.
This is the way you can have unlimited amount of Lockers with
different passwords.
See also: Frequently Asked Questions about Folder Lock |
Saturday, August 2, 2014
How to Protect Removable Drives With Folder Lock
