Control Panel Commands

Pop-up menu

Pop-up menu in the right pane of the BestCrypt Control Panel

If you press the button on the string (or icon) that describes a Container in the right panel, the pop-up menu will contain the following commands:

• Mount - use this command to map (mount) the selected container to any free drive letter available on your computer.
• Dismount command dismounts the container from the virtual drive. The virtual drive letter is removed from the list of available drives on your computer. You may use this free drive letter, for example, to map a network disk or to mount another BestCrypt container.
• Delete command deletes the file-container and removes it from the Control Panel list. When you push this button, you will be asked for your password and confirmation that you really want to delete the selected container. Beware - all information in the deleted container will be lost!
• Remove link command removes reference (link) to the container, so that it won't be shown in the list of containers. Note that the container file itself will not be deleted, and later you can restore the link with the Add link to container or Find container command from the Group menu.
• Properties - use this command to see or change properties of the selected container: file name, password, description, key generator or encryption algorithm. You should use this command to create hidden part in the container. If the container was created with the KG-Ghost key generator, use this command to operate with the container key block: backup/restore, encrypt/decrypt and wipe.

If you press the button on an empty space in the right Container List panel, the pop-up menu will contain the following commands:

• New - use the command if you want to create new container.
• Add link. After running the command, you will be asked to browse to a container and link to the selected container will be added to the current group.
• Find containers. After running the command, you will be asked to browse a folder, BestCrypt will search the folder and its subfolders for containers and links to the found containers will be added to the current group.

Pop-up menu in the left pane of the BestCrypt Control Panel

If you press the right mouse button on the string with the regular disk description, the pop-up menu will contain the following commands:

• New
• Add link
• Find containers
• Explore command opens Windows Explorer with the contents of the drive.
• Hide. Using the command you can mark some drive as hidden, and BestCrypt Control Panel will not show the drive in the left pane. Later you can set the Show hidden drives option in View menu, and BestCrypt Control Panel will show all drives on your computer, including hidden drives.
• Refresh

If you press the right mouse button on the string with the BestCrypt virtual drive description, the pop-up menu will contain the following commands:

• Hide
• Dismount
• Explore
• Format command calls standard operating system procedure to format the virtual drive.

Toolbar buttons

The Dismount All button is intended for use in an emergency or simply when you want to immediately dismount all virtual drives. Pressing this button erases all encryption keys in the system, making access to BestCrypt encrypted drives impossible until the BestCrypt drives are remounted.

Menu items

• New - create new container on the current drive;
• Delete - delete container;
• Remove link – BestCrypt Control Panel will not show the container. This command does not delete the container from the disk;
• Browse - this command is intended for working with containers with encrypted headers, because such containers are not shown in the BestCrypt Control Panel. When you browse the container in Explorer, BestCrypt will create Temporary Group for the container and you can work with this container in a usual way. When you close the Control Panel, BestCrypt will delete the Temporary Group (but not the container itself);
• Mount - mount container;
• Dismount - dismount container;
• Dismount all - dismount all containers;
• Properties - show (or change) container’s properties;
• Exit - quit BestCrypt Control Panel;

• New group - create a new group of containers;
• Delete group - delete a group of containers;
• Rename group - rename a group of containers;
• New container- create a new container somewhere on disk, and add a link to the container to the group;
• Add link - create link to an existing container in the selected group;
• Find containers - run automatic procedure of searching containers on some disk or directory.

• Show hidden drives - if the option is set, the BestCrypt Control Panel shows all drives on your computer, including hidden drives. If the option is set, you can select some hidden drive and reset the Hide Drive option.
• Hide Drive - mark selected drive as hidden. BestCrypt Control Panel will not show the drive in the left panel.
• Explore drive - if you select a BestCrypt virtual drive string in the left pane of the Control Panel and run the ‘Explore drive’ command, Explorer’s window with the drive contents will appear.
• Show all containers in root folder - if the option is set, BestCrypt Control Panel will automatically scan selected drive and show all containers stored in the root directory of the drive.
• Use recently mounted list - switch use of recently mounted containers list. The command takes an effect in Control Panel ("Recently Mounted" group is created or not) and in BestCrypt system tray (the list of recently mounted containers appears or not).
• Toolbar - hide/show and customize toolbar
• Status bar - hide/show status bar
• Refresh - refresh the program view

• Hot key - set the hot key combination to close all virtual drives
• Time out - set the time-out value to close all virtual drives
• Systray Icon . The software supports the BestCrypt System Tray Icon which is located on the desktop taskbar. Use Systray Icon command to enable/disable the icon or to set a shortcut key to activate the System Tray menu using keyboard.
• Explore drives after mounting - if you turn on the option, Windows Explorer’s window with the BestCrypt virtual drive’s contents will appear automatically every time you mount the drive. Note that disabling this option does not always mean that BestCrypt will always be able to prevent Windows from automatically exploring the drive.
• Mount drives as removable - BestCrypt virtual drives appear in Windows as removable drives if you set the option.

Sub-menus of the Key Generators option contain list of advanced settings available for every Key Generator module of BestCrypt. BestCrypt has three modules available – SHA-1, SHA-256, and new KG-Ghost (containers with old key generator GOST (v.2-5) are also supported).

Using the Key Generators option sub-menu, you can set a Keyboard Filter for Password Edit controls so that keyboard monitor utilities (like Microsoft Spy++ ) cannot intercept a real password that you type.

Before setting the Keyboard Filter, it is recommended that you type something in the Test edit box just to verify that the Filter is working properly on your computer. You should see exactly the letters and words that you are typing. If the Filter is enabled, a small red cursor will appear under the password edit controls when you mount a container or create a new one.

You can make BestCrypt show characters when you type the password. To do so, you shoul check the Show characters when password is typed checkbox.

• BestCrypt Plug-in Manager
• Container Guard utility
• Swap File Encryption untility
• Automatic Update
• BestCrypt Volume Encryption - provides transparent encryption of a whole volumes/partitions on fixed and removable disk devices. To get more information, read Help documentation for the BestCrypt Volume Encryption software.
• BCWipe Task Manager - BCWipe is a powerful set of utilities which allows users to shred sensitive information from storage devices installed on your computer. To get more information, read Help documentation for BCWipe.
• BCArchive - compresses group of files or folders to encrypted archive (i.e. a single compressed file). To get more information, read Help documentation for the utility.
• Public Key Manager - use the utility to manage your own public/secret key pair as well as public keys you have received from other people. To get more information, read Help documentation for the utility.

• Contents - shows contents of the BestCrypt help documentation.
• About BestCrypt - information about the BestCrypt system.
• Jetico, Inc. Homepage - runs a Web browser registered on your system (for example, Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer) and makes the browser showing the Jetico Homepage.

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