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Boxee was a cross-platformfreewareHTPC (Home Theater PC)software application with a 10-foot user interface and social networking features designed for the living-room TV that enables its users to view, rate and recommend content to their friends through many social network services and interactive media related features. Boxee was originally a fork of the free and open sourceXBMC (now Kodi) media center software which Boxee used as an application framework for its GUI and media player core platform, together with some custom and proprietary additions.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Marketed as the first ever 'Social Media Center',^[10][11][12] the first public alpha of Boxee was made available on 16 June 2008.^[13] The UI design of the Alpha prototype was designed with design firm Method Incorporated, who also created Boxee's brand identity.^[14] The first public beta version was officially released for all previously supported platforms on 7 January 2010.^[15] Boxee gained the ability to watch live TV on the Boxee Box using a live TV stick in January 2012.^[16][17] By the end of 2012 the developers had discontinued all desktop versions and support.

Boxee co-developed a dedicated set-top box (hardware) called 'Boxee Box by D-Link' in cooperation with D-Link which was the first 'Powered by Boxee' branded device to be announced and launched,^{[18][19][20][21]} as well as a similar media player device called 'Iomega TV with Boxee' (available in the UK & Europe) in cooperation with Iomega^[22][23] and a 46' high-definition television from ViewSonic with integrated Boxee software.

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Boxee was owned and developed by a single for-profit startup company, (Boxee, Inc.), which began as a high techstealth startup based in Israel and the United States with seed money from several angel investors, & was then known to be financially backed by venture capital firms such as General Catalyst Partners, Union Square Ventures, Softbank, Pitango, Spark Capital and Globis Capital Partners.^[24][25][26] The company's main offices are located at 122 West 26th Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10001Coordinates: 40°44′42″N73°59′33″W / 40.745062°N 73.992611°W.^[27]

On Wednesday, July 3, 2013 online media sources revealed Samsung would hire key employees and purchase Boxee's assets for around $30M. Samsung confirmed the acquisition with The New York Times, but did not disclose the amount.^[28]

• 2Features
• 3Mobile software associated with Boxee
• 4Programming and developing
• 7Legal aspects

Overview[edit]

Boxee supports a wide range of popularly used multimedia formats, and it includes features such as playlists, audio visualizations, slideshows, weather forecasts reporting, and an expanding array of third-party plugins. As a media center, Boxee can play most audio and video file containers, as well as display images from many sources, including CD/DVD-ROM drives, USB flash drives, the Internet, and local area network shares.^[29][30]

Through the processing power of modern PC hardware, Boxee is able to decode high-definition video up to 1080p. Boxee is able to use DXVA (DirectX Video Acceleration) on Windows Vista and newer Microsoft operating-systems to utilize GPU accelerated video decoding to assist with process of video decoding of high-definition videos.^[31][32]

With its Python-powered plugin system, the Boxee software incorporates features such as Apple movie trailer support and subtitle downloading, access to large on-demandvideo streaming services Netflix, Headweb and Vudu; a range of popular online internet content channels like audio services Pandora Radio, Last.fm, Jamendo, NPR, SHOUTcast radio streams; video services from ABC, BBC iPlayer, Blip.TV, CNET, CNN, CBS, Comedy Central, Funny or Die, Joost, Major League Baseball, NHL Hockey, MTV Music, MySpaceTV, Revision3, MUBI, OpenFilm, SnagFilms, IndieMoviesOnline, EZTakes, United Football League, Vevo, Vice Magazine, TED, The WB Television Network, YouTube^[33][34] and image services from Flickr and PicasaWeb picture viewing plugins. All are available as media sources available alongside the local library.

Some of the services are via specialized connections (e.g., YouTube), while the rest are a preselected list of podcast channels for streaming using generic RSS web feeds (e.g., BBC News).^[29] Boxee also supported NBC Universal's Hulu quite early on, but in February 2009 was asked by Hulu to remove the service at the request of Hulu's content partners.^[35] Boxee later reinstated the feature using Hulu's RSS feeds,^[36] but Hulu once again blocked access.^[37][38]

Even though both the Boxee App and the Boxee Box support Netflix,^[39] the Boxee App supports only a limited instant queue, missing more recent TV shows and movies available through the web browser and iPhone apps.

Boxee recently introduced a new plugin architecture based on the XUL (XULRunner) framework which technically allows any web-based application to be ported into an application for Boxee integration. Because of this Boxee can now utilise Mozilla corebase architecture for most of its plugins – since this is the same core architecture that Firefox uses, Hulu will see Boxee as 'any other Mozilla browser so Hulu doesn't block the app.'^[40] Hulu's latest attempt to thwart Boxee involves JavaScript scrambling.^[41]

Another interesting aspect is how Boxee manages to play Adobe Flash content from sites such as YouTube and Hulu, and display HTML5 or Silverlight content from such web-based services such as HBO Go and Netflix. Boxee seems to be shipping with a closed source, binary-only, program called 'bxflplayer', which seems to load Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft Silverlight proprietary plugins. This program communicates with the main Boxee process via shared memory and it renders the video onto screen. By using this approach, it is possible for Boxee not only to play Flash Video and Silverlight content that is protected by DRM (Digital Rights Management) but also allows for the user to control the player using a remote control and other input devices that are more suitable to laid back watching. Same as with the above-mentioned 'libboxee', it is not clear if this way of using 'bxflplayer' as closed source libraries with a GPL licensed software passes as GPL linking exception or not.^[33]

Boxee source code is otherwise in majority based on the XBMC (now Kodi) media center project's source code which Boxee uses as its software framework, and the Boxee developers contribute changes to that part back upstream to the XBMC project.^[8][42][43] So Boxee is partially open-source and those parts are distributed under the GNU General Public License, however Boxee's social networking layer library, 'libboxee' is closed source as it deals with proprietary methods of communication with Boxee's online back-end server which handles the user account information and social network communications between the users in the Boxee userbase, it is not clear if this way of using closed source libraries with a GPL licensed software passes the GPL linking exception or not.^[44]

Features[edit]

Social Networking Layers[edit]

The social networking component of Boxee is the differentiator from other media center software.

Boxee requires registered user accounts, which form a social network of fellow Boxee users. Users can follow the activity of other Boxee users who were added as friends, and can publicly rate and recommend content. Users can also control what media appear in the activity feed in order to maintain privacy. If a user recommends something that is freely available from an internet content service then Boxee will let others users stream it directly. If a user recommends something that is not freely available then Boxee will try to show metadata, and movie trailers if it is a movie that the user recommend.^[29]

The user's friends' Boxee activity feeds are displayed on the user's home screen, as is the user's own recent activity. Internet content is accessed through a sub-menu of each of the video, audio, and photo menu items, such as Video -> 'My videos' and Video -> 'Internet videos'.^[29]

In addition Boxee Beta and later has the option of monitoring Twitter and Facebook news feeds to automatically discover links to videos, Boxee will then add those videos to a watch queue in Boxee so they can be later viewed.

Boxee can also export a user's media activity feed to other social networking services such as FriendFeed, Twitter, and Tumblr. The list of connections to such supported third-party social networking services is currently small, and this feature is one-way only, (it is for example not yet possible to monitor Twitter feeds from within Boxee), but this type of third-party integration is different from the way content sources are treated. Through FriendFeed, Twitter, and Tumblr it is then possible from those third-party social networking services for a user to choose to post the Boxee activity feed to social networking sites such as Facebook, (currently through FriendFeed, Twitter, and Tumblr apps for Facebook).

Boxee AppBox Add-on Store and plugin Apps (widgets/gadgets)[edit]

Boxee's 'AppBox' app store 'App Store' which is a digital distribution service platform that serves add-on apps and plug-ins that provide online content to Boxee, the 'AppBox' allows users to download new apps and addons directly from Boxee's GUI. Many of these sources are in high definition and use streaming sites' native flash and Silverlight players. Boxee has extensibility and integration with online sources for free and premium streaming content.

AppBox offers content including commercial video, educational programming, and media from individuals and small businesses.

Boxee also encourages users to make and submit their own add-on apps and plug-ins to add additional content accessible from within Boxee.

Audio/video playback and handling[edit]

Boxee can play multimedia files from CD/DVD media using the system's DVD-ROM drive, local hard disk drive, or stream them over SMB/SAMBA/CIFS shares (Windows File-Sharing, though this is not presently supported by Boxee TV), or eventually UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) shares (not available in v0.9.14).

Boxee is designed to take advantage of the system's network port if a broadband Internet connection is available, enabling the user to get information from such sites as IMDb, TV.com and AMG.

Boxee can stream Internet-video-streams, and play Internet-radio-stations (such as SHOUTcast). Boxee also includes the option to submit music usage statistics to Last.fm and a weather-forecast (via weather.com). It also has music/video-playlist features, picture/image-slideshow functions, an MP3+CDG karaoke function (not available on the Boxee Box)^[45] and many audio-visualizations and screensavers.

Boxee can in addition upscale/upconvert all 480p/576p standard-resolution videos and output them to 720p, 1080i, or 1080p HDTV-resolutions.^[29][30]

Boxee can be used to play most common multimedia containers and formats from a local source, (except those protected by those with DRM encryption). It can decode these in software, or optionally pass-through AC3/DTS audio from movies directly to S/PDIF output to an external audio amplifier or receiver for decoding on that device.^[46][47]

Video playback in detail[edit]

The Video Library, one of the Boxee metadata databases, is a key feature of Boxee. It allows for the automatic organization of a users' video content by information associated with the video files (movies and recorded TV Shows) themselves.

The Library Mode view in Boxee allows a user to browse video content by categories such as Genre, Title, Year, Actors and Director.

Boxee has the capability to on the fly parse and play DVD-Video movies that are stored in ISO and IMG DVD-images, DVD-Video movies that are stored as DVD-Video (IFO/VOB/BUP) files on a hard-drive or network-share, and also ISO and IMG DVD-images directly from RAR and ZIP archives. It also offers software upscaling/upconverting of all DVD-Video movies when outputting them to an HDTV in 720p, 1080i or 1080p.

Audio playback in detail[edit]

The Music Library is another key feature of Boxee. It automatically organizes the user's music collection by information stored in the music files ID meta tags, such as title, artist, album, genre and popularity.

Boxee features are on-the-fly audio frequency resampling, gapless playback, crossfading, ReplayGain, cue sheet and Ogg Chapter support.

Digital picture/image display in detail[edit]

Boxee handles all common digital picture/image formats with the options of panning/zooming and slideshow with 'Ken Burns effect', with the use of CxImage open source library code.

BitTorrent client, interface, and torrent trackers[edit]

Early builds of Boxee included a built-in BitTorrent client (not in the Windows version), with a frontend for it integrated into the Boxee interface, and there are also Torrent links to legal BitTorrent trackers download sites available incorporated by default. The built-in torrent client was later removed. Through Boxee's Python plugin system it was also possible for the end-users to make their own or add unofficial plugins made by third-party persons for other BitTorrent trackers.

Mobile software associated with Boxee[edit]

The 'boxee remote'^[48]) is an application released by Boxee Inc. for the Apple Inc. iOS which allows for remote controlling of an installed and concurrently-active Boxee session on another computer via the iOS' touchscreen user interface. It was approved for the App Store on 16 March 2010.^[49]

Third-party developers have also released Boxee remote control apps for Android^[50] and webOS.^[51]

This is a list of third-party companies who sell hardware bundled with Boxee media center software pre-install, or sell uninstalled systems that specifically claim to be Boxee-compatible ('Boxee Enabled') by the manufacturer. These third-party companies directly or indirectly help submit bug fixes back upstream to Boxee, as well as to the XBMC project which Boxee in turn uses as its framework.

Boxee Box by D-Link[edit]

Boxee Box by D-Link (officially 'D-Link Boxee Box DSM-380') is a Linux-based set-top device and media extender that first began shipping in 33 countries worldwide on 10 November 2010.^[52][53] Designed to act as a hub, to bring internet television and other video to the television via Boxee's software, it comes pre-installed with Boxee media center software and the hardware is based on Intel CE4110system-on-a-chip platform (that has a 1.2 GHz Intel Atom CPU with a PowerVR SGX535 Integrated graphics processor), 1 GB of RAM, and 1 GB of NAND Flash Memory.^{[18][54][55][56][57][58][59]} The DSM-380 features output ports for HDMI (version 1.3), optical digital audio (S/PDIF) connector, and RCA connector for analog stereo audio, two USB ports, an SD card slot, wired 100 Mbit/s (100BASE-T) ethernet, and built-in 802.11n WiFi.

The Boxee Box also ships with a small two-sided RFremote control with 4-way D-pad navigation and a full QWERTYkeypad as standard, and this remote is also being sold separately with a USB-receiver as 'D-Link Boxee Box Remote DSM-22' which can be used with Boxee installed on a computer so one can use this remote without owning D-Link's Boxee Box^{[60][61][62][63]} The look of both the case and remote prototypes for the Boxee Box was designed by San Francisco-based Astro Studios, which is the same designer company that designed the look of Xbox 360 and the Microsoft Zune.^[64][65]

Iomega TV with Boxee by Iomega[edit]

Iomega TV with Boxee by Iomega was announced by Boxee on 4 January 2011, this was the second Boxee device to be announced It began shipping in Q1 of 2011.

The Iomega TV with Boxee is a Linux device which comes pre-installed with Boxee media center software. The hardware is based on Intel CE4110 system-on-a-chip platform (that has a 1.2 GHz Intel Atom CPU with a PowerVR SGX535 Integrated graphics processor), 1 GB of RAM, and 1 GB of NAND Flash Memory. Iomega TV with Boxee features audio / video output ports for HDMI (version 1.3), optical and coaxial digital audio (S/PDIF) connectors, and RCA connector for analog stereo audio, two USB ports, wired 1 Gbit/s ethernet, and built-in 802.11n WiFi.

The Iomega TV with Boxee also ships with a similar small two-sided RF remote control with 4-way D-pad navigation and full a QWERTY keypad as standard.^{[22][23][66][67]}

However, unlike D-Link's Boxee Box, the Iomega TV with Boxee device features space to internally fit a 3.5 inch SATA hard drive. According to Boxee, the hard drive is not only for the Boxee software on the device but also usable as a NAS (Network Attached Storage) unit to share its media data over the network as a DLNA compliant UPnP AV media server.^[22][23][68]

Myka ION[edit]

Myka ION is an Nvidia Ion based set-top device designed to bring internet television and media stored on the home network to the living-room, it comes pre-installed with Boxee, XBMC, and Hulu Desktop as applications that can be started from the main menu.^[69]

NUU Player[edit]

NUU Player by NUU Media (NUU Ltd.) was an Nvidia Ion-based set-top device designed to bring internet television and media stored on the home network to the living-room, it came pre-installed with Boxee, Hulu Desktop, and a WebKit web-browser as applications that could be started from the main menu with a remote control. It also has Skype app and Bluetooth support.^[70][71] Nuu has since discontinued NUU Player development and has removed any mention of it from their web site.

Programming and developing[edit]

As a partially open source application and freeware software program, Boxee is developed by a commercial start-up company with the goal of someday profiting from Boxee and their social networking service, working as a distribution application framework for both major pay-per-view and independent video on demand providers.

Boxee, like XBMC Media Center (which Boxee is based upon), is a cross-platform software programmed mostly in C++ and uses the Simple DirectMedia Layer framework with OpenGL renderer for all versions of Boxee. Some of the libraries that Boxee depends on are also written in the C programming-language, but are used with a C++ wrapper and loaded via Boxee's own DLL loader when used inside Boxee.

Add-on apps (widgets/gadgets) and Python scripts as plugins[edit]

Boxee features a Python Scripts Engine and WindowXML application framework (a XML-based widget toolkit for creating a GUI for widgets) in a similar fashion to Apple Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets and Microsoft Gadgets in Windows Sidebar. Python widget scripts allow non-developers to themselves create new add-ons functionality to Boxee, (using the easier to learn Python programming language), without knowledge of the complex C/C++ programming language that the rest of the Boxee software is written in. Current plugin scripts add-ons include functions like Internet-TV and movie-trailer browsers, cinema guides, Internet-radio-station browsers (example SHOUTcast), and much more.

Boxee recently also introduced an additional plugin architecture based on the XUL (XULRunner) framework which enables any web-based application to be integrated into Boxee as an app add-on. With this new plugin architecture Boxee uses Mozilla corebase architecture for those plugins. Since this is the same core architecture that Firefox uses, Hulu will see Boxee as any other Mozilla-based web browser.

Skins, skinning, and the skinning-engine[edit]

Boxee GUI source code is based on XBMC Media Center which is noted for having a very flexible GUI toolkit and robust framework for its GUI, using a standard XML base, making theme-skinning and personal customization very accessible. Users can create their own skin (or simply modify an existing skin) and share it with others via public websites dedicated for XBMC skins trading.

Limitations and known issues[edit]

This is a list of current software limitations in the Boxee code (Boxee's base source code is based on XBMC Media Center software source code, so Boxee has many of the same software limitations as XBMC).

• Boxee Box does not support Flash Player 11 - many sites stream media content using Flash Player 11 (e.g., Comedy Central); Boxee plans to support this in the future.^[72]
• Boxee currently cannot play any audio/music files protected/encrypted with Digital rights management (DRM), such as music purchased from the iTunes Store, MSN Music, or Audible.com before DRM restrictions are lifted.^{[citation needed]}
• Boxee is currently available for x86-based platforms, and a x86-64 version is available for Windows. Boxee is not yet available for ARM, PowerPC, or MIPSinstruction set architectures.^{[citation needed]}
• Boxee requires a DirectX 9.0 or OpenGL 1.4 with GLSL (or newer) hardware accelerated graphics GPU and matching device drivers.^{[citation needed]}
• Boxee provides online sources for TV shows missing from the user's local storage. However, online sources may use different season & episode numbering schemes (e.g., anime), resulting in Boxee's providing incorrect TV episode enumeration. Boxee does not allow its users to disable online sources and as of November 2010 did not plan to offer a solution for this issue.^[73]

Reception[edit]

In October 2008, Boxee won Consumer Electronics Association's (CEA) i-Stage award,^[74] and with it $50,000 prize for the continued development of Boxee, as well as a free booth for the 2009 International CES (Consumer Electronics Show).^[75] Boxee donated half of the $50,000 prize money to the developers of XBMC.^[76]

On 9 January 2009, G4 announced Boxee as the winner of their 'Best of the Best products of CES 2009' award (in the 'Maximum Tech' category) amongst all the products displayed at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2009 trade show.^[77]

In January 2010, at the Consumer Electronics Show, Boxee garnered 5 awards; 'LAPTOP's Best of CES 2010 – Best Home Entertainment (Boxee Box)',^[78] 'Last Gadget Standing – CES 2010 Winner',^[79] 'International CES Best Of Innovations 210 – Home Theater Accessories',^[80] 'Popular Science – Best of CES 2010 (Products of the Future)'.^[81]

In April 2011, it was made public^[82] that Boxee had violated the terms of the GPL in the way they used open source software. According to the GPLv3, which governed software in the firmware of the device, users need to be able to reinstall modifications to the device. Boxee admitted the software was included in each device, but stated that their financial agreements with other companies were at risk if they complied. Despite much user dismay there was no change in course by Boxee.

On 31 October 2012 Boxee posted a statement on their website saying they had to make a decision between releasing a device which was hackable, or one which was commercially viable with premium content.

As it stated, Boxee would have loved for the Boxee Box to be open to other software, but ultimately, they were bound by agreements with their content providers to ensure the security of the content. This started a spate of negative comments from Boxee Box users on the Boxee blog as prior Boxee promises had indicated otherwise. After less than a day, the entire Boxee page (along with the statement, the blog and its comments) was removed and replaced with a new Boxee TV website. However, the old Boxee blog was not deleted but moved.^[83]

Legal aspects[edit]

Patents[edit]

For most popular video and audio codecs, Boxee includes native support through free and open source software libraries, such as LAME, libmpeg2, and libavcodec (from the FFmpeg project). Since these source code libraries are released under free and open source licenses they are legally redistributable. However, some of these compression methods algorithms, such as the popular MP3 format, are in many countries protected by software patents. Absent a license,^{[verification needed]} this could possibly make it illegal^{[citation needed]} in certain^[which?] countries to distribute compiled versions of Boxee which includes support for these formats.^{[citation needed]}

Web scraping[edit]

Boxee has built-in web scraping to automatically download metadata information and online artwork from sites like IMDb, Discogs, freedb, and Allmusic. There could be some legal issues associated with web scraping in some countries, as it is against the Terms of Use policy of many websites, however the enforceability of these terms is unclear.^[84]

Privacy[edit]

As part of the social networking functionality, information about what content users watch is transmitted to Boxee.tv Inc's servers. Concerns have arisen over the use of this information, as Boxee is being created by a for-profit company and possible revenue-generation models for media center applications include the sale of user activity data to advertisers and other interested parties. Boxee's privacy policy^[85] does not directly address this issue.

Other[edit]

Boxee uses libdvdcss to support playback of DVD-Video movies encrypted using the Content Scramble System (CSS) encryption. The distribution of executable versions of Boxee containing this code could possibly violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in the U.S. and the Copyright Directive in European Union member countries which have incorporated it into national law. However, this has never been tested in court for open source projects.

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16 Best Free Software for Folder Lock: – I lost all my data saved in a folder recently, just because my data was not protected. Apart from the fact that none of the Windows version comes with the password lock option for your personal folders, most of us are casual about the data we save on our PC or laptop and would not even consider protecting them.

What we do not understand is that this lets others get access to your privacy which can be either accidentally deleted by friends or family, or even manipulated by someone else. Hence, it is a good practice to keep your folders password protected so that your data is safe and secured.

While you do have the option to hide the folders in Windows operating system, it is of no use as the folder can be searched or unhidden. Hence, those who want to password protect their data they are forced to seek help from third-party software. So if you want to protect all your stuff in a jiffy, you can use some good applications to encrypt them.

Also read: – 16 Free USB encryption tools to password protect your USB

There are many applications out there that help to lock your folder, however, most of them are paid versions. Today we have compiled a list of some of the best free software for folder lock just for you that will help you save your drives on your Windows platform. So let’s get going.

Folder Lock Free

If you have a large quantity of data then you definitely want to secure it, and Folder Lock is one of the tools that helps you to achieve that. It helps you to lock and hide your files, folders, and drives by password protecting them. In addition, it also encrypts files, folders and email attachments, while it safely backs up your data and also safeguards your CD and the USB drives.

It doesn’t stop at that, as you can also create wallets to store your credit card details and other personal information with the help of Folder Lock. It prevents your data to be accessed by even the smartest of hackers and the spies with the hotkey-activated secret mode. Clean history and shred junk files with Folder Lock and try all the benefits for free for the first 30 days post which it costs $39.95.

Download: http://www.newsoftwares.net/folderlock/

Price: Free; $39.95 after free 30 days trial period

Compatibility: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10

IObit Free (Protected Folder)

One of the best choices of a folder locker goes to the IObit’s free Password or Protected Folder which is user-friendly, captures less disk space and offers a solid elementary protection for your files and folders. With IObit you can hide your files and folders from any outside access. While all outsiders are blocked to access your data, they cannot even view it in your absence.

It offers an extremely simple dashboard where you can just drag and drop your preferred data to be locked. Additionally, the program also keeps itself secured by password protecting itself so that no one can uninstall it either. Even though IObit’s Password Folder is a free application it is completely free of malware and viruses.

Download: http://www.iobit.com/en/password-protected-folder.php

Price: Free

Compatibility: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10

Lock-A-Folder

Even though the developer has shelved the project meaning that there would be no updates to the product, you still have the option to download the archive Lock-A-Folder application for free. It is a user-friendly software that takes up a small disk space and helps you to lock or hide any private folders on your PC or laptop. This action blocks other users to have access to your files and makes your data invisible.

You need to create a master password to select the folder you want to hide or lock. Simply click on the option to make them invisible. You can again enter the password and select the desired folder to unlock it. Even when you need to uninstall the application, you need to enter the master password which means that no one in your absence can uninstall the tool without the password.

Download: http://lock-a-folder.en.softonic.com/

Price: Free

Compatibility: Windows XP/ Windows Vista/ Windows 7/8/10

Safehouse Explore

A free encryption software, Safehouse Explore helps to maintain the privacy of your data by protecting them with passwords. It effectively covers your data from snoopers or anyone else who should not have access to it. With passwords and strong encryption of maximum 256-bit to make your data disappear completely from the outside world.

From photos, videos, delicate files, spreadsheets etc. to any kind of files, it protects and hides your data completely. It can also defend the data contained in your USB and CD drives, memory cards, iPods and even network servers. It allows you to access your files only when you enter the password, which also makes it safe from external forces.

Download: http://www.safehousesoftware.com/SafeHouseExplorer.aspx

Price: Free

Compatibility: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8

Easy File Locker

Easy File Locker is a free software that is user-friendly and lightweight. Perfect for Windows operating system, this tool helps defend your files and folders from getting lost or stolen. It provides solid protection to your data that is secured from other users and blocks them to view, open, read, change or remove info, copy or even move folders. The files or folders are completely hidden from being seen by any other user or spy program.

Easy File Locker is developed to protect your private files and folders on your private computer. The best part is that it does not slow down the speed of your system, does not modify or damage any data on your protected folders.

Download: http://xoslab.com/efl.html

Price: Free

Compatibility: All Windows OS

Folder Guard

If you have decided upon hiding your private files and folders from outside users, password locks your data, limit access to Control Panel, defend the files in the system from getting destroyed and to control access to files, programs and folders to different Windows resources, then Folder Guard is the right choice for you.

Free Download Lock Software For Pc

While you can specify to restrict access for which type of file, you can also create “read-only” files with Folder Guard for other users or viruses and restrict them to damage or modify your data.

It is a lightweight application that barely takes up any space and protects your private data efficiently. Moreover, with an extremely user-friendly interface, it makes the entire process super easy for the user.

Download: http://www.folder-guard.com/

Price: Free

Compatibility: Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

Private Folder

With Private Folder, you can effectively hide or lock your private folders using a password. Any folder which is hidden can be accessed only by the owner who can get into the folder manually without even un-hiding it and using a configuration tool. Locked folders can be unlocked only with Private Folder configuration software else it cannot be accessed by unknown users.

When conjoined with the Hide folder option, it will create a robust protection that will hide the folder completely. If you try to find a file in this mode, it will come back with a prompt saying “windows cannot find..” rather than the usual message that says “access denied”.

Furthermore, you can get access to the hidden files only if you enter the correct password. Also, the lock automatically resets itself when you have mistakenly left the folder unlocked for more than two minutes. Some of the unique features of the Private Folder is that when the name is changed for the folder or it’s root the rule will automatically fine-tune itself to display the changes while the files are still locked and hidden.

There is no limitation to lock files and folders.

Download: http://www.emingsoftware.com/products/private-folder/

Price: Free

Compatibility: Windows 7 and Windows 8/10; both 32 bit and 64 bit configurations

Free Hide Folder

As the name suggests, Free Hide Folder is a free software that helps you to hide a list of private folders. While it prevents your sensitive data to be accessed by outside users, they will also not be aware of the existence of your personal files and hence, will not be able to see them even accidentally.

The software provides password protection to your folders which can be modified or deleted at any given time. Free Hide Folder is easy to use tool that works with just a few mouse clicks. Open the tool, find the folder you want to hide, select it and then finally click the option that says “Hide Folder” to simply hide your private folders.

Unless the folders are unhidden by the owner, the folders remain hidden completely. While you run the program the folders are password protected and require no change in the file system. You can hide a unlimited number of files with Free Hide Folder which is completely free of any viruses, ads, or spywares.

Download: http://www.cleanersoft.com/hidefolder/free_hide_folder.htm

Price: Free

Compatibility: Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7/8

Instant Lock

With Instant Lock you can rest assured that your piles of data will be locked and protected in a matter of seconds. There are many ways by which you can lock your data that is, either by using the add button inside the app, you can drag and drop the folder, simply drag the folder to the application link, by entering the command line like, “D: New Folder” or by just right clicking the mouse button the desired folder and choosing the option “Lock”.

Instant Lock ensures that no has access to your files and folders even if your laptop is stolen, and neither can anyone uninstall the tool except you who can do so using the password. The best part is that even if the data is deleted accidentally or by someone, you can simply re-install the app with the same password and you have your folders back!

That’s not all, as you can also protect your USB drives, CD/DVD drives, or Flash Memory drives by suing a password. Moreover, it also allows you to defrag and ScanDisk effortlessly, however, remember to unlock all folders and backup your locked folders before you carry out the action.

Download: http://instantlock.net/

Price: Free

Compatibility: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/2003/2008/2012, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10; for both 32 bit and 64 bit editions.

SecretFolder

Secret Folder is a freeware that’s created to protect your private folders with a password. Even though the interface is elementary, it is extremely user-friendly and straightforward. Once the folder is safeguarded with SecretFolder it will not be visible in the File Explorer. The best part here is that users will not have access to these protected folders even via the Command Prompt which makes it a unique feature.

Even when someone wants to uninstall the program he/she needs to enter the password to perform the action. This also means that no outsider will be able to access your protected folder on your PC without the password, uninstall it or reset the password making it an extremely safe and secure option.

You can protect unlimited files or folders of any size and the fie systems that are supported by the SecretFolder is FAT, FAT32, exFAT and NTFS. You can either add the folders to hide and protect by cling on the Add button or simply drag and drop the desired folder to the app window. If you want to unlock the folder you need to open the tool, key in the password and then just click the Unlock option. You have the option to change the language and the password under the preferences section.

Download: http://ohsoft.net/en/product_secretfolder.php

Price: Free

Compatibility: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10; for both 32 bit and 64 bit versions

HiddenDIR

HiddenDIR is another great tool which is not only free of cost but also defends your privacy by hiding your private folders in just a few clicks. Once hidden, the folders are invisible to others users and inaccessible by anyone. The folders which are carefully hidden by the software will be visible only if you have the password to the directory or the USB drive where it is saved.

You simply need to click the “Hide” button to hide the folder and make it invisible, while to unhide the folder and make it visible by selecting the desired folders and check the option “select to unhide” and there you go! Above all, you need to set a password that will be prompted to enter when you want to open the application.

Download: http://www.rcpsoft.net/hdir.html

Price: Free

Compatibility: Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7

File & Folder Protector

File and Folder protector is another free folder security software that helps you to safeguard your sensitive data with a robust password protection option. This step does not allow any outsider to have access to the files except the owner.

You can activate protection from the main dashboard and simply select the desired folders to be locked. It allows you to select multiple items at a time post which you can start the protection procedure. You need to now create a strong password which is customizable, so you can edit it any given time. Once the data is protected no one else except the owner can access the locked data from Windows or via the MS-DOS search option.

Download: http://www.softheap.com/ffp.html

Price: Free

Compatibility: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7

Protect Folder

Protect Folder is a compact and lightweight software that does not occupy much of your computer’s space. It helps protect your personal folders and also encrypts your sensitive files, folders and other portable devices with a strong password which can be again unlocked with only hotkeys. If you prefer using ZIP archive security, then you should try Protect Folder instead and feel the difference.

This application can be quickly installed and uninstalled and it also has the feature to lock the directory automatically when the time is over. Among its other features are, the facility to direct the files and folders to the safeguarded directory, and the ability to provide robust protection.

Protect Folder also comes with a clean and light-weighted dashboard and also helps protect any of the removable drives and their directories.

Download: http://www.everstrike.com/password-protect-folders/

Price: Free for limited period after that it costs $34.95 per copy.

Compatibility: 2000/XP/Vista/7/8 and Windows 10.

Folder protection

Kaka Folder Protection is a compact and portable software that helps protect your sensitive data by password locking them. Your private files and folders are secured with the current 256 bit AES encryption technology. The best part is that you can usually open the tool directly without even installing it your workstation.

You can simply copy the command “Lockdir.exe” to a drive or folder and simply run it to lock the folder with a password. The passwords used are exclusive, so you can rest assured that your data is safe from being changed, removed, misused or moved.

You can protect your precious files and folders with just a few clicks that restrict it from outside view and access and also prevents your data from being tampered or deleted. Folder Protection also protects your removable drives like external hard drives, memory cards, USB drives, pen drives etc. with a password.

Download: http://www.kakasoft.com/folder-protect/

Price: Free for 1.0 Download

Compatibility: Windows 7 (32 bit and 64 bit), Windows 8, Windows Vista (32 bit and 64 bit), Windows XP (32 bit and 64 bit), Windows 2003/XP/2000

Advanced Folder Encryption

Advanced Folder Encryption is another offering by Kakasoft that helps lock your private files, folders, and hard drives in just two simple steps. It allows you to lock folders instantly with the military standard encryption that is, 256 bit AES. It is a highly user-friendly program that provides top-grade security for your sensitive data on your PC or Laptop.

It offers an extremely simple interface where you can drag and drop a file/folder to be protected. You can then set up a new passcode and once done your protected files or folders will instantly change into protected icons. You can also simply right-click on the folder and choose the option “Encrypt” to protect your folders in a second.

Additionally, Advanced Folder Encryption also allows you to shred files and even permanently delete any junk files from your computer that cannot be recovered. The tool directly integrates with Windows Explorer and helps encrypt files and folders, view and edit them, and even decrypt them in just a few clicks.

Download: http://www.kakasoft.com/folder-encryption/

Price: Free for 3.0 M download

Compatibility: Windows 8/7/Vista/2003/XP/2000

Lock and Hide Folder

If your aim is to simply hide and protect your folders, Lock and Hide Folder can be the right bet for you. By simply clicking on the “Hide” button you can hide the selected directories. Even though this tool has comparatively fewer features than the others in the category, it is one of the best options if you want to just protect your directories.

It hides your sensitive files in such a way that neither can it be viewed by other users nor can it be accessed. Your hidden files cannot be even traced with links in your current documents once protected. For additional security, you can set a password so that no one else can access your files. This app can also run in stealth mode making it invisible to other users.

You can also use hotkeys to activate or deactivate the hidden folders to be visible. Lock and Hide Folder works on 256 bit Blowfish Encryption.

Download: http://www.lock-folder.com/

Price: Free for 15 days; $29 after trial period

Compatibility: Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7, Vista, Windows XP/2000