How to Password Protect your Files and folders

Password protection of private file is as important as creation of the file itself. Previously we wrote about how to hide your hide drives from others,but in that situation you had to use command prompt to hide the hard drive . Hiding files in that fashion is a bit tough for a non-tech user, but we have found a solution to that problem using a freeware SafeHouse Explorer, which does the job quite efficiently.

Follow the following steps to password protect your files and folders :

1. Download SafeHouse Explorer.

Download Safehouse

2. Install SafeHouse Explorer to your hard-drive.

3. After the installation is complete, click the “New Volume” button to create a private folder.

Create Safehouse Folder

4. You can make many volumes to create folders of your chosen size preference.

Folder Size

5. You can see the Safehouse drive after going to “My Computers”.

Safehouse Drive

After these steps, it’s just the play of mouse. Few drags and drops of your folders and files into this virtual drive and they get instantly password protected.

Accessing the protected files is also easy, simply navigate to the folder that houses your protected files and double-click the corresponding volume file. Once you type the correct password, you will see all the files and folders under the virtual drive in Windows Explorer.

These volumes (the .sksk file) can easily be copied to USB flash drive or external hard disks, which makes their vulnerability very low. Even if you lose the external hard disk, no one can open the files without knowing the password.

Ah…another use, e-mail attachments. Always use these folders (the .sksk file) as attachments and communicate the password to the recipient in other means and this will ensure even e-mail privacy.

Go and be in Safehouse now!