gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » system protect http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 System Protect Protects Windows Fileshttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/18/system-protect-protects-windows-files/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/18/system-protect-protects-windows-files/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:45:43 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6252 System Protect can protect custom files and folders as well as system files in Windows. By default all files and folders that are necessary to run the operating system are protected by the security application. Protected in this case means that deleting and modifying protected files is denied to the user. This setting can be changed in the program’s options to allow system changes on the user requests which is for example helpful during system updates.

An access denied window pops up when the user or system tries to delete or modify a protected system file. This popup notification can be removed in the options as well.

Besides protecting important system files System Protect can also protect custom files and folders that have been selected by the user. This is done by adding those files and folders to the Custom Protection tab in the software program’s settings.

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Information about files and folders that are protected are stored in a database that gets regularly updated just like the virus definition file of a antivirus software. That’s a good way of keeping up with system changes initiated by Microsoft and other software vendors.

System Protect is compatible with Windows XP 32-bit and 64-bit editions as well as Windows Vista 32-bit editions.

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