If you encrypt data on your computer, you need a way to recover that data in case something happens to the encryption key. If your encryption key is lost or damaged and you don’t have a way to recover your data, the data is lost. You will also lose data if you store your encryption key on a smart card and the smart card is damaged or lost. To make sure you can always access your encrypted data, you should back up your encryption certificate and key. If more than one person uses your computer, or if you use a smart card to encrypt files, you should create a file recovery certificate. For more information, see Create a recovery certificate for encrypted files.
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We’ve all got our little secrets, personal and private stuff on our computer that we want to keep safe or rather not share with others. But hiding things on a computer can be difficult, especially If you can’t remember where you put it, and encrypted files are a dead giveaway that you have something to hide.

Free Hide Folder is what you need, it simply makes folders and their contents disappear from Windows, so even if someone is snooping around your PC it won’t show up, and what they can’t see they can’t break into. It’s unbelievably easy to use, just set a password, confirm it, specify the folders you want to hide and click OK. The only way to make them appear again is to open Free Hide Folder and enter your password, so just remember to hide the program, or give it a different name. Now hang on, what happens if you forget where you’ve hidden the program? (more…)

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