Hide My Folders ActiveX 3.5.15.180

Hide My Folders ActiveX 3.5.15.180 is a useful software built to let developers hide any file or folder in Windows system.

You don't need to dive into hazy world of low-level file access functions. Once files or folders are hidden they cannot be accessed, searched for, viewed or deleted, therefore no one will know that they exist. Instead of specifying necessary file/folder names you could define pattern-matching mask to hide a group of files that complies with certain criteria such as same extensions or similar names.

Functionality of Hide My Folders ActiveX reminds a shield: it covers all necessary files and folders with a "cloak", thus making them invisible. After you have hidden any files or folders, it is impossible to find them, as they become unseen and impossible to search, view and delete.

Using Hide My Folders ActiveX methods and properties you could easily implement advanced hiding features in your application saving time and efforts while focusing on other tasks. Version 3.5 includes ability to hide files at non-existent drives.

Major Benefits:

1. Hide critical folders and files in your application: Ensure the failure free work of your application by hiding its critical files and folders, thus making them inaccessible. Just implement this ActiveX control in the application you are developing, choose any files or folders you want to be hidden and press Enable Hiding button. This will turn on the hiding engine and it will conceal the files and folders from viewing, accessing, searching and deleting completely.
2. Hide the folder, leaving its contents visible: Hide My Folders ActiveX provides the possibility to hide any folder, leaving all of its contents accessible. This is very important when you need your information to be invisible, though accessible, having the opportunity to add, delete and do other work with files, that are located in this particular folder.
3. Hide folders with all of its contents: Using profound methods of Hide My Folders ActiveX it's easy to hide any folder together with its contents just by defining full path to it. The specified folder becomes invisible, impossible to view, access, search and delete. Even when trying to access it using command line, you will get a system message saying this folder does not exist. To add some new files to this folder, or edit the existing ones, just unhide it for a short period of time, and then hide it again.

Major Features:

1. Hide files and folders from viewing, accessing, searching and deleting directly from your own application
2. Create any number of applications that work with the same ActiveX instance simultaneously and do not interfere with each other
3. Turn on/off hiding engine globally
4. Easy-to-use hiding features management
5. "white applications' list" grants full access to hidden files and folder for certain applications
6. Specify "wild-card" mask to hide a group of files/folders that match the mask
7. Any number of files, masks and folders can be hidden at the same time
8. No one can access hidden files unless they are unhidden by your application
9. Invisibility of hidden files and folders over the network
10. Highest level of information security for your software
11. Fully compatible with Windows 2000, XP and 2003
12. NTFS, FAT32, FAT file systems are supported
13. All hidden items will stay invisible in Safe Mode too, extending file security
14. User-friendly and simple: flexible set of various methods and properties

Enhancements:

• Improved: ActiveX hiding core
• Improved: overall stability of the component
• Fixed: bug in DEMO version, which enables using Hide My Folders AX without time limitations
• Fixed: several minor bugs and glitches