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Folder Guard Changelog

What's new in Folder Guard 22.12

Dec 21, 2022
  • When creating or changing a password that is too short, Folder Guard now displays a warning and offers to choose a longer password;
  • The Ukrainian language has been added.
  • Several minor improvements and corrections have been made.

New in Folder Guard 22.10 (Oct 24, 2022)

  • The digital signatures of the executable files have been updated according to the latest security requirements of Windows 11 and Windows 10.

New in Folder Guard 22.9 (Sep 21, 2022)

  • This update offers several improvements and corrections:
  • When a shortcut is chosen to be protected with Folder Guard, the user is now prompted to select whether to protect the shortcut itself or the target;
  • The reparse points can now be protected with Folder Guard, too;
  • When enabling or disabling the stealth mode, the visibility of the taskbar notification icon of Folder Guard is now controlled automatically, too, along with other Folder Guard shortcuts;
  • Several minor improvements and corrections have been made.

New in Folder Guard 22.5 (May 6, 2022)

  • A new option has been added to record the file system events in a log file for troubleshooting purposes;
  • Several other minor improvements and corrections have been made.

New in Folder Guard 22.3 (Mar 4, 2022)

  • This update offers several improvements and corrections:
  • Native support for the ARM 64-bit processor architecture has been implemented;
  • New command line switches have been added: /SILENT and /VERBOSE;
  • Several minor improvements and corrections have been made.

New in Folder Guard 21.4 (Apr 19, 2021)

  • This update offers several improvements and corrections:
  • The temporary passwords with expiration dates can now be used to pause the protection or unlock the pasword-protected folders.
  • Several minor improvements and corrections have been made.

New in Folder Guard 20.10.3 (Oct 22, 2020)

  • This update corrects a problem that was causing system crashes in some situations.

New in Folder Guard 20.10 (Oct 11, 2020)

  • This update corrects a problem that was causing crashes in some situations with third-party storage solutions used alongside of Folder Guard.

New in Folder Guard 20.9 (Sep 25, 2020)

  • This update offers several improvements and corrections:
  • The Traditional Chinese language has been added to the list of the available languages.
  • Several minor improvements and corrections have been made.

New in Folder Guard 20.1 (Jan 22, 2020)

  • This update offers several improvements and corrections:
  • The Catalan language has been added to the list of the available languages.
  • The Trusted Programs list can now contain masks to specify classes of the paths that should be trusted.
  • The Trusted Programs list can now contain UNC paths specifying programs located on other network computers.
  • A problem has been corrected that prevented paths longer than 64 characters to be added to the Trusted Programs list.
  • If Folder Guard is installed using an MSI package from the Administrator's Kit, it is now prevented from being uninstalled by the end user via the Control Panel. (It can still be uninstalled via the Group Policy or by running the msiexec utility.)
  • Several other minor improvements and corrections have been made.

New in Folder Guard 19.9 (Sep 30, 2019)

  • This update offers several performance improvements that make certain system backup operations faster.

New in Folder Guard 19.7 (Jul 11, 2019)

  • This update offers several improvements and corrections:
  • A problem has been corrected that prevented Folder Guard from working properly when a very large number of different folders were configured to be protected.
  • Several other minor improvements and corrections have been made.

New in Folder Guard 19.6 (Jun 23, 2019)

  • This update offers a correction that should prevent system crashes that could occur in some situations when browsing to the network locations protected with Folder Guard.

New in Folder Guard 19.5.0.3011 (May 23, 2019)

  • This update offers several improvements and corrections:
  • A new option, Report events to Windows Event Log, has been added to the Options view of Folder Guard.
  • A problem has been corrected that prevented some domain users added to the Trusted list to be treated as trusted users.
  • Several other minor improvements and corrections have been made.

New in Folder Guard 19.4.0.3009 (Apr 5, 2019)

  • This update offers several improvements and corrections:
  • Each password-protected folder can now have an unlimited number of different passwords. (Previously, the limit was 4 passwords per folder.)
  • A new command, Lock all unlocked shared folders, has been added to the right-click menu of the notification icon of Folder Guard.
  • The text of the command Locked all unlocked folders on the main prompt of Folder Guard has been changed to Lock all folders I've unlocked to better reflect the scope of this command.
  • A problem has been corrected that in some situations, when unlocking a shared folder from another computer, caused Folder Guard to report that protection was not enabled on the remote computer.
  • Several other minor improvements and corrections have been made.

New in Folder Guard 18.7.0 (Jul 31, 2018)

  • This is a security update that corrects a problem that could allow an attacker to manipulate the contents of the configuration file of Folder Guard (while the protection is paused or disabled) to cause a crash of the system.

New in Folder Guard 18.5 (May 14, 2018)

  • This update corrects a problem introduced in version 18.4 that in some situations caused the contents of the subfolders of the protected folders to remain hidden even after the correct password had been provided when unlocking the folder.

New in Folder Guard 18.4 (Apr 24, 2018)

  • This update offers several improvements and corrections:
  • The Korean language has been added to the available translations of Folder Guard.
  • A problem has been corrected that in some situations allowed the user to delete files protected with a read-only filter.
  • Several other minor improvements and corrections have been made.

New in Folder Guard 18.3.1 (Mar 31, 2018)

  • This update offers several improvements and corrections:
  • A problem has been corrected that in some situations prevented the user from being able to change Folder Guard settings on a computer with a disabled User Account Control.
  • The precedure of cleaning the history lists of Windows Explorer has been improved.
  • Several other minor improvements and corrections have been made.

New in Folder Guard 18.1 (Jan 8, 2018)

  • This is a maintenance update that contains several minor improvements and corrections.

New in Folder Guard 17.7 (Aug 1, 2017)

  • This release offers several important improvements, such as:
  • If you are a system administrator of a large network, you can now use Folder Guard to edit Group Policy Objects (GPO) directly, to configure the protection of the network computers using Group Policy and Active Directory.
  • The Trusted Programs and Trusted Users screens have been replaced with a unified Trusted view.
  • The protection options have been separated from the program settings and are now controlled using the Options view.
  • You can now select a custom font to be used in the Folder Guard views.
  • Several other minor improvements and corrections have been made.
  • Note that with this update we are changing the version numbering to the "Ubuntu" style. For example, version 17.7 means it was released in July of 2017.

New in Folder Guard 10.4.1 (May 22, 2017)

  • This update adds the Arabic language translation to Folder Guard 10.4.
  • It also corrects an error that could cause Folder Guard to crash on a computer with a misconfigured Windows Search functionality.

New in Folder Guard 10.4 (May 4, 2017)

  • The language of the user interface of Folder Guard can now be changed directly, without the need to install a different language version.
  • A new option has been added that allows you to choose whether to show or hide the Unlock buttons on the password-protected folders. If you choose not to display such buttons, you can still unlock the password-protected folders by using the right-click menu, for example.
  • Several other minor improvements and corrections have been made.

New in Folder Guard 10.3 (Jan 14, 2017)

  • This update offers several minor improvements and corrections.

New in Folder Guard 10.2 (Oct 24, 2016)

  • This update enables the use of Folder Guard 10 on clean installations of Windows 10 build 1607 and Windows Server 2016 with Secure Boot enabled.

New in Folder Guard 10.1 (Aug 23, 2016)

  • This update offers several improvements to Folder Guard 10, such as:
  • The user interface of the Folder Guard application has been translated [This link opens an external web page] to several languages other than English.
  • When a user locks a password protected folder, Folder Guard now sends a notification to Windows Search. After receiving such a notification, Windows Search is expected to remove the information about the files located in the protected folder from its index, so they would not appear in the search results.
  • A problem has been corrected that in certain situations caused the option to clear the File Explorer history after a password-protected folder was locked to be applied incorrectly.
  • Several other minor improvements and corrections have been made.

New in Folder Guard 10.0 (May 19, 2016)

  • This is a major update that adds many new features and capabilities to Folder Guard, such as:
  • The ability to password-protect the shared folders.
  • The ability to protect access to the network drives and folders.
  • Password-protected folders can now have more than one password, with different properties.
  • The stealth-mode is improved to allow the control of the protection via the hot key, in addition to the emergency recovery utility.
  • A special NetworkUser name can now be added to the User list to allow to set up the restrictions that would apply to any network user connecting to your shared folders.
  • Many subtle changes under the hood improving the functionality of Folder Guard.

New in Folder Guard 9.1 (Aug 27, 2013)

  • This is a minor update that corrects a few minor problems reported by the users of the previous version.

New in Folder Guard 9.0 (Apr 23, 2013)

  • The user interface has been updated, that will hopefully make Folder Guard even easier to use than before.
  • The Permissions command has been removed. If you used on this command in the previous version, you may want to use the Group Policy and Local Security Policy commands of Windows instead.
  • The Trusted Programs list now uses the full path to the program's file to determine whether it should be trusted. With this change, if you have added a custom trusted program to the list in the previous version, you will need to add it again, using its full path.
  • The protection of the folders on the mapped network drives is no longer offered. If you relied on this feature in the previous version of Folder Guard, you may want to use the built-in network security of Windows to control access to the network drives.
  • Folder Guard now automatically handles the proper access to the desktop.ini files of the protected folders, to preserve the custom icons and other customizations of the folders, if any.
  • Folder Guard no longer supports the pre-Windows XP versions of Windows (such as Windows 2000 and earlier).
  • In order to use the filters of Folder Guard, you must now purchase a full (business) license. If you purchase a personal/home use license only, the filters will have no effect.
  • Many other improvements and corrections have been made.

New in Folder Guard 8.4 (Aug 25, 2011)

  • A problem has been corrected that caused the hidden folder attribute not to be applied properly in some situations.
  • A problem has been corrected that caused the desktop icons to become hidden after disabling the protection in some situations.
  • A problem has been corrected that in some situations caused the Toggle Protection command not to accept the password even if the correct password was entered.
  • Several other minor improvements and corrections have been made.

New in Folder Guard 8.3.2 (Nov 5, 2010)

  • This update corrects an error introduced in version 8.3.1 that prevented some license keys from being accepted as valid.

New in Folder Guard 8.3.1 (Nov 2, 2010)

  • A problem has been corrected that caused the mapped networked drives not to be protected as expected in some situations.
  • Several other minor improvements and corrections have been made.

New in Folder Guard 8.3 (Oct 18, 2010)

  • An option to enable protection in the safe mode of Windows has been added. (Previously, this could only be enabled manually).
  • You can now set up the user-specific restrictions for the domain users.
  • Several new filters have been added to allow you to lock all applications, your MP3 collection, or to restrict access to any removable drive someone might attach to your computer.
  • Several other minor improvements and corrections have been made.

New in Folder Guard 8.2 (Sep 26, 2009)

  • A problem has been corrected that prevented the password prompts for the locked folders to appear after double-clicking on them in Windows 7.
  • Several other improvements have been made to make Folder Guard fully compatible with Windows 7.
  • The Export/Import Working Set commands have been replaced with the Administrator's Kit.

New in Folder Guard 8.1 (Mar 25, 2009)

  • A problem has been corrected that prevented entering upper-case characters in the passwords.
  • A problem has been corrected that prevented the option "Show password" from working when the option "Protect password prompts from the Password stealers" was disabled.
  • Several other minor improvements and corrections have been made.

New in Folder Guard 8.0 (Feb 5, 2009)

  • The separate editions have been combined into one installation package.
  • New images from icons-icons.com have been added.
  • The size of the toolbar buttons can now be selected by the user.
  • A new permission has been added: Allow Task Manager.
  • Several minor improvements and corrections have been made.