You can use SafeHouse explorer in three different modes:Ī) Installed (and integrated) version, which indeed requires a payed license, for either a 'PRO' or an 'Enterprise' release.ī) Portable and free version (which will NOT expire), with performance enhancements installed (You will not need admin rights, but you will need authorization to apply changes to the registry, in order to be able to install the performance enhancements provided by the portable app).Ĭ) Portable and free version (which will NOT expire), without performance enhancements installed (You will not need admin rights, nor authorization to apply changes to the registry). I am using Safe House for several years now, both in a payed version and, when I am working in a different environment, a portable, free version. I'm planning on building this into the PA.c Platform at some point as a poor man's password protection.Īgain, it is technically IMPOSSIBLE on Windows to have an encrypted set of files that you can access directly and run portably without either having admin rights (with TrueCrypt, FreeOTFE, etc) or using a hardware encrypted drive ( Carbide as shown in the site header). Many of these products also do something they call 'locking' which is basically just hiding a folder and using some Windows tricks to prevent it from being opened/visible in Windows Explorer. Same as with using FreeOTFE with the FreeOTFE Explorer bit. And you have to copy any apps you want to run out of it. You have to move any files you want to use out of it to open them in any app. You can move files in and out of it via the interface. These types of solutions are basically the same as having an encrypted, password-protected 7z file on your stick and being able to open it with 7-Zip Portable.