How To Lock Your Folders Without Using any Software

January 18th, 2009 by Sunil Jain

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Yes!!!!! this wonderful windows hack can lock your personal files/folders without the use of any folder lock software.

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

Go to the location where the folder you want to lock is located.
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….

Tags: folder, folder lock, folder lock without software, lock, windows, windows hack
Posted under: How to, Tips"n"Tricks

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13 Responses to “How To Lock Your Folders Without Using any Software”

How to use Notepad as your personal diary | Tech18 says:

January 18, 2009 at 9:39 am

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Jordan says:

January 18, 2009 at 9:48 am

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.

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admin says:

January 18, 2009 at 10:05 am

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

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admin says:

January 18, 2009 at 10:18 am

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

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Jordan says:

January 20, 2009 at 6:44 am

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

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Kittu says:

January 20, 2009 at 8:42 am

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

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Raju says:

January 25, 2009 at 6:01 am

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/

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File Lock says:

January 27, 2009 at 12:37 am

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

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Startup says:

June 21, 2009 at 3:38 pm

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

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Sunil Jain Reply:
June 21st, 2009 at 3:49 pm
@Startup
just click on share this
Thanks

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Vinod says:

April 30, 2010 at 11:39 am

BUT ANYBODY CAN SEE THE CONTENT OF FOLDERS FROM COMMANDLINE.

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