Advanced Hide Folders v4.0 for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP
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Overview
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Advanced Hide Folders is powerful security program to hide any number of files or folders. 
It is very useful to keep your personal data from others. What is more hidden files can be 
locked to prevent access to them via MRU feature (e.g. list of Most Recently Used documents 
in MS Office applications).

You have any files or programs that you don't want to share with other or they contain financial 
and tax information, passwords, personal letters and emails, private images, and other confidential 
or personal data. But typically, computer files and folders have not security protection so the 
best way to protect them is to make files or folders invisible for another's eyes. Advanced Hide 
Folders makes hidden any files and folders (or whole program folder or even all computer disks).

Advanced Hide Folders allows you to select any folders (and sub folders with files) of your choice 
to protect as hidden files and folders. You can select any folders on your computer or drag-and-drop 
the desired folders from Windows Explorer into the Advanced Hide Folders window. In one mouse click 
the folders selected become invisible. Once files or folders are hidden, it is impossible to find 
them, or access and remove any file. Unhiding files or folders is as easy as hiding them - just one 
mouse click and they are visible and accessible to you again. If program folder or whole disks are 
hidden, itself program or Windows will continue to work normally.


Advanced Hide Folders features:
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- Any number of files and folders may be hidden at the same time.
- No one but you can access your hidden files or folders.
- Program does not modify file system structure.
- Hotkey and password protection for program start.
- Stealth Mode - program itself can be hidden.
- Advanced Hide Folders will hide any folders including Windows, Windows System 
  folders and Windows partition root folders without damage of 
  perational system itself (i.e. your computer will continue to work 
  normally).
- Locking of hidden files to prevent access to them via list of most recently used files.
- Intuitive and easy-to-use user interface.
- NTFS, FAT32 and FAT file systems are supported.


System requirements
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No special requirements for hardware or software. If your computer can 
run Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP operating systems, the Advanced 
Hide Folders will run as well.


How to contact us:
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You can contact us via email or fax.

Contact email address: support@softbe.com
Contact fax number: +1 (360) 365-3415

In general we prefer email communication because to accordance with our 
experience user describes his problem/request/suggestion in more 
understandable form while he composes email text. Usually we answer to 
all emails within 48 hours maximum.

Before you contact us, please do the following:

- Be sure that you're doing everything right. We all make mistakes 
  sometimes... Be attentive.
- Look at the program Help file: it may already contain an answer to your 
  question. A lot of people ask us something like "how do I:" though the 
  complete information is there.
- Visit product home page in the Internet at: http://www.softbe.com 
  It's a good chance that you'll find the newer version of program there. 
  If the serious bug has been found in the program, but the new version is 
  not ready yet, we make the hot fix for it.

But if you still have a problem with program and noting else helps, please 
contact our technical support team.

To get answer as soon as possible please inform us about the following:

- Program version (from "About" menu);
- Your order or user identification number (if you're a registered user) 
  It will help us to process your inquiry in the first place;
- Windows version (including service packs and other fixes installed), US 
  or international, OEM or not;
- Computer information: CPU type and speed, installed memory;
- Description of your problem (as much information as possible so 
  developers could reconstruct your exact situation in the lab).

