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The Internet revolution has brought new threats and challenges for PC users. Security has always been an important issue for people. These days security of information is all important. Users refer to different methods to protect information from being used by third parties. There are many scammers on the Internet and companies that steal information from their competitors.
Greed makes people do stupid things. Thus, employees of large companies often access forbidden files and then send information to third parties. To protect these files and documents they use passwords. Indeed, it is really easy to protect files with passwords as you do not need any special knowledge or experience.
Many system security administrators ask a question: “How to find hidden files?” Why hidden? It is because hidden files are most suspicious. If you spot Excel document called balance-2009 then it is supposed to contain some sensitive or compromising information.
With Show Hidden Files utility you will know which employees are cheating on you. This program focuses on search of password protected files and archives only. Show Hidden Files is very easy to use, especially for network administrators, as it can perform search in remote or network hard drives.
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Show Hidden Files has a very simple interface and clear functions. You will probably need very little time to learn to operate the program. Let’s review basic steps you should take to get accurate search results.
Logically, you should select a directory or a hard drive for Show Hidden Files to look for password protected files. There can be more than one location, i.e. you can choose several hard drives or folders. There is also an option Scan sub-folders available.
Having chosen locations, the program is ready to scan them. However, if you have additional information on protected files, you may effectively use it. This concerns date and size. These two search criteria will surely help you narrow search results and find the files you have been looking for.
So, if you are interested in files of a certain or approximate size, set relevant values in the checkboxes. For example, you may be looking for files larger than 3 MB or smaller than 20MB.
Search by date implies that you know or guess when the files were created, accessed or modified. For instance, if you perform regular searches for password protected files, you may be interested only in the files created in the recent two weeks.
