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18
2009
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How To Lock Your Folders Without Using any Software

An article by Sunil Jain    Comments 14 Comments

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Yes!!!!! icon biggrin How To Lock Your Folders Without Using any Software this wonderful windows hack can lock your personal files/folders without the use of any folder lock software. icon smile How To Lock Your Folders Without Using any Software

All you need to have is a notepad and follow the below steps:

  1. Go to the location where the folder you want to lock is located.
  2. Right click and select New Text Document and type in the following code
    and save it as lock.bat (replace <YOURFOLDERNAME> with folder name your locking)

ren <YOURFOLDERNAME>

<YOURFOLDERNAME>.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

3. Open another new text document and type in the following code and
save it as key.bat (replace <YOURFOLDERNAME> with folder name ur locking)

ren YOURFOLDERNAME.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

YOURFOLDERNAME

4.That’s it!! Now whenever you want to lock the folder double click loc.bat which converts your folder to control pannel and protects it from being accessed and when you want to unlock it then double click key.bat

Hope this Helps….

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  • Jordan

    I must be doing it wrong. I tried it out and got the MS-DOS Batch file for both the lock and key but it wouldn’t lock the folder though. The files inside the folder were still able to be viewed.

  • admin

    type the folder name properly and also the code it is working !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • admin

    neglect “< " and ">” and write the code it is working :)

  • Kittu

    hello friends,
    help me too,
    am also facing the same problem.

  • Jordan

    So to lock to a folder, lets say the name is jyt, you type in

    ren jyt
    jyt.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} and save it as lock.bat

    and to unlock it you type in

    ren jyt.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
    jyt and save it as key.bat

    is that how you type it in

    Sincerely

    Jordan

  • http://techpp.com Raju

    very interesting tip :)
    I had written a post similar to this, do check it
    http://techpp.com/2009/01/10/easiest-way-to-hide-a-folder/

  • http://www.newsoftwares.net/folderlock File Lock

    I use Folder Lock to secure my data,its the best security application.

  • Startup

    Thanks. That was great, now where is the bookmark button

    • http://www.gupshupblog.com Sunil Jain

      @Startup
      just click on share this :)
      Thanks :)

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  • Vinod

    BUT ANYBODY CAN SEE THE CONTENT OF FOLDERS FROM COMMANDLINE.

  • Chetan

    This is not working…