Enabling and disabling the protection

When you need to work with the files located in the folders protected with Folder Guard, you need to temporarily disable the protection. After you are all done working with the protected files, you need to turn the protection back on, to stop the unauthorized users from opening your private files.

If you have created an unlocking password for your personal folder, you can unlock that folder alone, while keeping the rest of the system protected. Or, you can enable or disable the protection of all your files and folders at once, using any one of the following methods:

If the main application of Folder Guard is currently running, you can use its Tools - Enable/Disable Protection command to turn the protection on and off, as needed.
When you are closing the main application of Folder Guard, it prompts you whether you want to start protecting the folders:
Alternatively, you can use the Start - Programs - Folder Guard - Toggle Protection command to change the status of the protection from on to off and back. Note that you must enter a valid master password before the Toggle Protection command lets you disable the protection.
If you have created a hot key, you can press the hot key combination, and after entering the master password, you can enable or disable the protection, too.
Yet another way of enabling or disabling the protection is via the taskbar icon, if you have enabled it and selected to add the Open command to its menu.
Finally, you can change the status of the protection, as well as lock and unlock individual folders by running the FGKey utility with the appropriate command line switches.

If you disable the protection, it will remain disabled until you enable it back on. You can also use the Enable protection at Windows startup option to make the protection to be enabled automatically whenever you restart Windows. Also, you can use the Re-enable protection after screen saver is active option of Folder Guard to make the protection enabled automatically after a period of user inactivity.