Finally, a giveaway that just downloads and has no hoops!

Thank you!

Password Folder is a small app -- <10MB -- that once run, including the portable version, adds itself to Windows Explorer right-click context menu. That and an uninstall key are all that are added to the registry when the app's installed. The portable version adds a single file to the hard disk, ProgramData\pfonce.ini, while the installed version adds the app's folder to Program Files (x86), and 3 different 1KB files to Users\ [UserName]\ AppData\ Roaming\. The portable version will not activate with the given key, but will recognize that the installed version has been activated, and will be unlocked. When you protect a folder a restricted access folder is created, C:\ pfdocument.. , which holds the protected but unencrypted files. When you protect a folder a new file takes its place with the same name as the now protected folder and a file name extension of .pff . Double clicking that .pff file brings up a small dialog to enter the password -- once the correct password is entered the original folder is recreated using the files stored in pfdocument.. . Whether it contains any files or not that folder will remain in place, and because its protected you can't delete it. That folder is visible in Windows Explorer, using the same or a different copy of Windows, though it is not visible after booting to WinPE, so it *might* not be visible if you boot to a Windows-based alternative with a command prompt, e.g., utility or backup app USB sticks. However, booting to a Live Mint Linux XFCE ISO I could access pfdocument.. like any other folder, and copy the contents to another folder. I could of course also delete the folder if I wanted to. I had protected a small app, MyDefrag, and after copying the files out of the protected folder and booting back to Win11 that copy of the app worked fine.

1. The application locks the folder as expected.
2. The application interferes with Windows Explorer and prevents user from using functions of Windows Explorer i.e. editing file names, using mouse right click features, copy/paste, deleting files, etc.
3. I cannot recommend using.

Looks clean: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/71f8afe3631dbbf92369a8c2a2698fc90f1ee7f46f86c78e27858628f09a15c6

After protecting a folder with a password and then opening it with a password is it necessary to relock the folder again or does it lock itself when you close the program?Thank you

Nice little software, but as aways it comes with notice.
The data inside the folder is not encrypted, so if you can gain access by other means, it has no protection, no files are encrypted, only the access to it are blocked. If you forget the password, it will become big headache to restore the data, because no copy or transfer to other drives is permitted.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/9cc4e661da1ba49ed321bb04bfbcd251b7078129890dd6e64828dacaddf60865?nocache=1

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/2c5984217631de935e466465f51983528d575a356b80066369df677ef3b9b706

According to Virustotal, both the giveaway and the portable are clean.

Several of my computers run both Zorin OS (based on Ubuntu Linux) and Windows 11. When running Windows, I cannot access the Zorin partition. But when I use Zorin, I can access the Windows partitions (both system and data partitions), when Windows is not running.I will later today test if I can access aWindows folder, protected with the giveaway when running Zorin OS. If that is the case, anybody who has access to your computer, can use a Zorin OS USB stick to get access to ALL your Windows files.
I used this trick several years ago to rescue the photographs on a friend's crashed Windows computer. Because the disk itself was still intact, I recovered all his photographs.