In this
tutorial i will show
you interesting and
usefull trick to
password protect
folder without using
any software using
batch file
programming. This
trick will work on all
windows platform
(Win XP, Win 7).
Follow below tutorial
to learn this trick.
How To Protect Folder
1. Open Notepad
and Copy code given
below into it.
cls
@ECHO OFF
title
MasterTricky.Net
if EXIST
"Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST
MyFolder goto
MDMyFolder
:CONFIRM
echo Are you
sure to lock
this folder? (Y/N)
set/p "cho=>"
if %cho%==Y
goto LOCK
if %cho%==y
goto LOCK
if %cho%==n
goto END
if %cho%==N
goto END
echo Invalid
choice.
goto CONFIRM
:LOCK
ren MyFolder
"Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
attrib +h +s
"Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
echo Folder
locked
goto End
:UNLOCK
echo Enter
password to
Unlock Your
Secure Folder
set/p "pass=>"
if NOT %pass
%==
hannan
goto FAIL
attrib -h -s
"Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
ren "
Control
Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
MyFolder
echo Folder
Unlocked
successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid
password
goto end
:MDMyFolder
md MyFolder
echo MyFolder
created
successfully
goto End
:End
2. Save the notepad
file as lock.bat (.bat
is must)
3. Now double click
on lock.bat and a new
folder will be created
with name MyFolder
4. Copy all your data
you want to protect
in that New folder
5. Now double click
on lock.bat and when
command promp
appears Type Y and
press enter.
6. Now MyFolder will
be hidden from you
view, to access that
folde double click on
lock.bat
7. It will ask for
password enter your
password and done
( Default password is hannan)
How To Further Secure ?
You might be thinking
that anyone can
access the password
by opening that
lock.bat file in
Notepad or any other
text editor. To make
it more secure hide
lock.bat in some
secure
location after
following the above
tutorial To access
the secured file
double click on
lock.bat. I would
suggest copying
lock.bat file into
Pendrive and
copying it into your
computer whenever
you required to
access to your
protected files.