- #WISE FOLDER HIDER PRO 2016 YOUTUBE HOW TO#
- #WISE FOLDER HIDER PRO 2016 YOUTUBE INSTALL#
- #WISE FOLDER HIDER PRO 2016 YOUTUBE DRIVER#
Nobody remembers the names of 13k legitimate folders let alone 70k files, plus you have all the other files & folders on the system disk.
#WISE FOLDER HIDER PRO 2016 YOUTUBE INSTALL#
The main alternative way to hide files is to hide them in plain sight - something else used by malware writers - & since the Windows folder in a fresh win10 32 bit install has ~70k files & ~13k folders, you have both opportunity & camouflage. And like the malware versions they can survive & work because most most Windows devices only have the one OS installed, & most people don't go looking, or defragging, or use CCleaner, or any of the other tools folks have mentioned that reveal hidden folders. It's sort of a reverse dual-use case that utilities that hide files &/or folders do basically the same thing, load software when Windows, starts telling Windows not to see hidden files/folders.
#WISE FOLDER HIDER PRO 2016 YOUTUBE DRIVER#
This serves the same functions as the more serious stuff, persistence & optionally file hiding, but anything hidden is visible when the driver doesn't load, when for example you use another, clean OS to look at the drive.
Thankfully most malware isn't so sophisticated, & at most adds a driver to Windows that loads when Windows starts. This gives the malware what's called persistence - you can delete other files belonging to the malware & it always comes back - and it can tell Windows to not see specific files, & if you can't see them, neither you nor your security software can get rid of them. Malware writers came up with the trick to put files in the 1st, hidden section of the hard disk, in the bios, & in extreme cases, in hard drive firmware. The file system - ntfs with most Windows installs nowadays - uses tables that store the file name along with where all the bits & pieces of that file are located on the storage media.
#WISE FOLDER HIDER PRO 2016 YOUTUBE HOW TO#
Waaaay too much hassle for me, which is why I stick to VeraCrypt and/or Safehouse Explorer: always free, and you can learn how to use 'em both by spending no more than 120 minutes on YouTube, watching the video tutorials from countless satisfied users. but still have been unable to either (a) get back the files / folders which they 'lost' because of password amnesia and (b) unable to install Wise Folder Hider again because that forgotten password was still being asked for by the newly downloaded / installed software.
I'm assuming there's some way of getting around this but haven't ever had the time nor inclination to wish to explore further, especially as some users have uninstalled using Revo Uninstaller PRO and Advanced mode for cleaning up. but then they've found that Wise wants their *original* (forgotten) password otherwise it won't allow usage of the new, downloaded app. Where the free version is concerned, I've known users forget their password and think ah, well, no problem: I'll just uninstall Folder Hider and then DL it again from Wise and re-install. In that regard then, this PRO version is hardly any different to the always-free version and thus seems to render the giveaway largely pointless. That's because although the paid-for PRO version includes a no-cost password recovery facility, today's PRO. Be VERY careful what you're doing with your password for this software because if you forget it, there'll be a substantial bill from Wise to get it back.