Advanced File Lock

Advanced File Lock is a file encryption utility that can protect any file on your computer with a password.

The overall simplicity is just great and it turns the app into an impressively easy to use product, with very intuitive options displayed right in the main window.

Advanced File Lock boasts shell integration, which means that it’s enough to right click a file in Windows Explorer and hit the “AdvancedFileLock” option to quickly password-protect it.

An encrypted file is marked with a lock icon and a .AdvanceFileLock extension and users who want to access its content need to write down the password just after launch.

The program also comes with a wiping tool that enables you to securely remove files from the local hard drives and prevent recovery apps from getting back the data. You can define the number of overwrite passes too, with available options ranging in between 1 and 20.

Not only that this software is very easy to use, but it’s also fairly light on hardware resources, running smoothly regardless of the Windows version installed on your machine.

Only basic computer knowledge is needed, but a help section is also available, just in case more documentation is needed on a particular feature.

Overall, Advanced File Lock is clearly a very effective product and the simplicity we were talking about makes it appropriate for any user category out there. What’s more, it also offers some bonus tools to get rid of specific files once and forever.