Sorry, but this is still one quirky and difficult program, at least under Win 10/64.
I used it once before, about 1 year ago, and almost lost a huge number of files and folders that I tried to hide before sending my laptop off for a major hardware repair. The “unhide” tool simply did not work, and eventually I had to manually locate the hidden files and wrestle with Windows to recover them one by one. Ugly. I used an archived copy of my hard drive to ultimately recover most of the missing folders and files. What a mess.
Just installed the latest version today to see if it behaves any better. It installs without error, but after launching and providing the password, the software does not do anything. No menus, no presence in task manager, etc. Won’t let me uninstall, either, telling me that I need to unhide any remaining files. The software has put me between a rock and a hard place. If there are still hidden files, it won’t let me see them, let alone unhide them (which I would LOVE to do!)
Weird and unpredictable. Bottom line: NOT a tool I will trust to protect my files.
That being said, I am a huge fan and user of most of the other Wise 365 tools. This one, though, is not for me.
Thanks, Wise and SharewareOnSale for providing software for us to try.