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Quick Start Guide 

Welcome to 

SecurFlash

,

 Version 8.2

 software from encryptX Corporation (

www.encryptX.com

) . The 

SecurFlash software encrypts and hides sensitive information on removable drives such as USB flash drives, 
removable hard drives, and also works to encrypt and hide files on your local PC hard drive.  Encryption is 
designed to prevent unauthorized access to confidential data, such as files for corporate projects, personal 
finances, entertainment (e.g. video and audio files) or can be used as a repository to store all your other 
usernames and passwords in a central and hidden location.  When you encrypt files through the SecurFlash 
application, they are also hidden on the drive from the PC Operating System so that they can only be seen and 
opened by first running the SecurFlash application and providing the password.   

 

Supported Operating Systems.  

The software is supported on Microsoft Windows 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 

and Vista.  The software is not supported on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Linux, or any of the 
Macintosh operating systems.  You can encrypt and hide any type of file supported by the Microsoft Windows 
Operating System through the SecurFlash software.  

 

Important Product Use Concepts 

1. 

Use of the SecurFlash software is not mandatory to the use of the drive

. If you do not want to encrypt 

and hide files on the drive that the software is installed on you can simply drag and drop or save files to the 
drive within your application or copy files using Windows Explorer.   

2. 

If you forget both your password and recovery hint you will not be able to access the encrypted and 
hidden files on the drive unless you have upgraded

.  You will need to remember either your password 

or your recovery hint question to be able to access your encrypted and hidden files.  If you are concerned 
about forgetting your password and recovery hint, you should consider upgrading to the “Corporate 
Version” of the SecurFlash software by running the selecting the 

Tools > Upgrade

 menu selection from 

within the SecurFlash application.  You do not have to reinstall or download new software.  You will have to 
pay a small fee to upgrade – which is explained in the “Learn more about Corporate Features” dialog box 
when you select 

Tools > Upgrade

 from within the SecurFlash application.  The Corporate Version of the 

software integrates with a web accessible server application that provides Administrator password recovery 
for users that forget their password and recovery hint, provides audit tracking of encrypted file system 
content, provides dynamic revocation of authorized password access to encrypted file system content if the 
drive is lost/stolen and the password is compromised, and provides optional enforcement of strong 
passwords and periodic password changes.    

3. It 

is very important to understand that when you encrypt files using the SecurFlash software they 

are stored in a hidden and encrypted file system on the drive.  

The encrypted files and folders that you 

have protected through the SecurFlash software are not visible to applications or the Microsoft Windows 
Operating System.  You cannot launch these files directly from the drive from within the Operating System 
or from within other applications, such as Microsoft Office.  The only way to access these files is to run the 
EncryptX SecurFlash application by double clicking the 

Run SecurFlash.exe

 from the drive where it is 

installed and providing the correct password.  Only then will you be able to see the hidden and encrypted 
files and folders that you have previously stored in the encrypted file system on your drive.   You can then 
open the files and modify them within your applications by double clicking the files that are shown to you in 
the SecurFlash encrypted and hidden file system.  

4.    You can open and edit your files from within the SecurFlash software and any changes will be 

automatically saved.  

 Any edits you make to files that you have previously encrypted and are opening 

from within the SecurFlash application will be automatically saved back in to the hidden and encrypted file 
system on the drive, when you SAVE or EXIT your application.  If you perform a SAVE AS, the SecurFlash 
application assumes you want to save your changes outside of the encrypted file system on the drive.    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                            

 

 

  

       January 19, 2007 

 

       

                     

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