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ZHider is a tiny free to use program which lets you hide any running window from the view of the user, the program window will be hidden from the taskbar without a trace. There will be a single keystroke which can toggle in between the visibility in between hidden to visible state.

It allows you to hide any windows instantly with easy hotkey combinations that allows you to use virtually any keyboard, it operates in a silent and stealth mode does not display any visual windows, no sounds, no system tray icon etc.

Easy File Locker is a free program which lets you secure windows files and folders so that users will not be able to open, read, modify, delete, move or copy the locked folders and files with this application.

You can protect files and folders and apply various security levels like access, write, delete and visible individually on any file and folder you protect with this tool. It will keep on protecting hidden file and folders in safe mode also depending on the access rights you had specified.

Drive Letter View is a tiny little program which allows you to change the way drive letter are displayed on the drives under my computer,  you can choose in between 3 display styles for showing the drive letters or hide the drive letters from showing in my computer.

You can have the following layouts set for the drive letters to show in my computer

Hiding File Extensions in windows is a some settings which one need to toggle on and off, as sometimes it is necessary to see the file extension to recognize the file and program which can open the same in windows.

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But turning the setting of hide extensions for known files types on or off, you will need to manually open the windows explorer go to File Menu >> Tools >> Folder Options and then click the view tab and under view tab you will need to locate the setting which says hide extensions for known files types

Rather, avoiding this whole tedious process you can install a free shell extension which will work on xp, vista and windows 7 also. This shell extension is called FileExtToggle.

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NetShareMonitor is a free to use application which allows you to watch your shared folder being accessed and you can also protect your shared folders from unauthorized access.

It will detect when ever a remote user connects to your machine to access your shared folders. It will provide the session information includes remote host address, remote user name, list of accessed files and time of connection.