Version 24.10 (October 1, 2024)

This update offers several improvements and corrections:

Version 24.8 (August 26, 2024)

This update offers several improvements and corrections:

Version 23.5 (May 3, 2023)

This update offers several improvements and corrections:

Version 23.2 (February 22, 2023)

This update offers several improvements and corrections:

Version 22.12 (December 19, 2022)

This update offers several improvements and corrections:

Version 22.10 (October 24, 2022)

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

Version 22.9 (September 20, 2022)

This update offers several improvements and corrections:

Version 22.8 (August 11, 2022)

This update corrects a problem that in some cases prevented the items set to be 'visible' under a folder set to appear empty from being actually visible in File Explorer.

Version 22.5 (May 5, 2022)

This update offers several improvements and corrections:

Version 22.3 (March 3, 2022)

This update offers several improvements and corrections:

Version 21.4 (April 17, 2021)

This update offers several improvements and corrections:

Version 20.10.3 (October 22, 2020)

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

Version 20.10 (October 10, 2020)

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

Version 20.9 (September 25, 2020)

This update offers several improvements and corrections:

Version 20.1 (January 21, 2020)

This update offers several improvements and corrections:

Version 19.9 (September 30, 2019)

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

Version 19.7 (July 10, 2019)

This update offers several improvements and corrections:

Version 19.6 (June 21, 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.

Version 19.5 (May 21, 2019)

This update offers several improvements and corrections:

Version 19.4 (April 4, 2019)

This update offers several improvements and corrections:

Version 18.7 (July 30, 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.

Version 18.5 (May 12, 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.

Version 18.4 (April 23, 2018)

This update offers several improvements and corrections:

Version 18.3.1 (March 30, 2018)

This update offers several improvements and corrections:

Version 18.1 (January 3, 2018)

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

Version 17.7 (July 31, 2017)

This release offers several important improvements, such as:

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.

Version 10.4.1 (May 20, 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.

Version 10.4 (May 5, 2017)

This update offers several improvements to Folder Guard 10, such as:


Version 10.3 (January 12, 2017)

This update offers several minor improvements and corrections.

Version 10.2 (October 21, 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.

Version 10.1 (August 21, 2016)

This update offers several improvements to Folder Guard 10, such as:


Version 10.0 (May 15, 2016)

This is a major update that adds many new features and capabilities to Folder Guard, such as:


Version 9.1 (August 27, 2013)


Version 9.0 (April 20, 2013)

This is a major upgrade offering many changes, with the goal to make it easier to set up the protection and reduce possible confusion over the many options that Folder Guard offers. Here are the most significant changes from the previous versions 8.x:



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