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If you work with important or confidential data, there’s surely a software component that makes your computer difficult to breach. If not, then you might want to manually take action, and there are many ways this can be done. One method is to rely on applications like Handy Encryption to protect your files using a custom security code, and a powerful algorithm.

A neat advantage is that the application doesn’t even need to be installed on your computer to properly function, with the possibility to run it directly from a USB flash drive. What’s more, the computer you use it on doesn’t get affected in any way, because registries don’t need to be modified.

The application has a pretty straightforward approach on encryption. Every step of the way brings up a new window, and although there aren’t any descriptions, the overall design makes it easy even for inexperienced individuals to get the hang of it from the first few seconds of use.

As such, choosing to encrypt a file when the main window shows up, takes you to a dialog screen where you can select any kind of file, then specify a destination folder for the new one, as well as a name. You’re asked whether or not you want the original to be removed, but it’s best you remember the required password, otherwise content isn’t accessible anymore.

To unlock an encrypted file, you merely need to run it, with the password prompt asking for the AES256 encryption key, as well as a destination to unpack. This can also be done from the main window, following the exact same steps. It would have been useful however, to be able to encrypt files directly from the system context menu.

We can say that the first and easiest way to secure a file is with a password. Since Windows doesn’t come with such a built-in function, applications like Handy Encryption make it easy even for inexperienced individuals to keep those important files safe. Thanks to an intuitive, lightweight design, it only takes a few seconds to protect just about anything.