Shims Any File Protector is a simple-to-use program designed to help you encrypt your files with a password, in order to protect them from other users with access to your computer. It features a decryption option too.

.NET Framework must be installed to work with this app. You can drop the downloaded .exe in a custom location on the HDD or copy it to a USB flash drive and just double-click it to launch Shims Any File Protector. It doesn't create additional files on the disk without your permission, nor modify Windows registry settings. A simple file deletion is enough to get rid of it.

Regarding the GUI, the application adopts a user-friendly window with a plain simple structure, where you can use the built-in file browser to locate files, enter and confirm a password, and click a button to immediately encrypt it.

It processes the original file, so make sure you don't forget the password. The new filename gets appended with the .encrypt extension and it's placed in the same location. In order to decrypt the item, all you have to do is select the file and specify the right key. There are no other notable settings provided by this tool.

We haven't come across any stability issues in our testing, thanks to the fact that it didn't hang, crash or prompt error messages. Unsurprisingly, it left a small footprint on system resources, since it needed a low amount of CPU and RAM to work properly.

Shims Any File Protector may not have a particularly rich set of options and configuration properties, but it offers a straightforward solution for encrypting and decrypting files. It's free to use.