How to Simply Lock and Unlock your Folder
Last January I wrote a trick on how you can simply make your valuable folders invisible. This time a folder trick that will lock your Windows folder. We will create a lock program and unlocking program. This trick will be very useful if you don’t want your friends, family members or other people that are sharing your computer to access your precious files.
Follow this simple steps to lock and unlock your folder.
1. Create a folder on your desktop and name it as folder
2. First we will create a program that will lock your folder. Open your Notepad then copy and paste the code below
ren folder folder.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
3. Save it as lock.bat
4. We now have a lock program, We will create a program that will unlock your folder. Open your notepad again then copy and paste the code below.
ren folder.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} folder
5. Save it as unlock.bat
It’s done.
To lock your folder just double click on the lock.bat program, to unlock it just double click on the unlock.bat program. Just remember to hide your unlock program or else locking your folder will be useless. Whenever you want to unlock your folder just paste your unlock.bat program on your desktop.
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8 Comments
Wow! I would really like to try that.
Now, It’s only moi who can access my folders!
Hahahahaha! Thank you for sharing this.
just be sure that you hide your unlocking program
Great post about a little known feature of windows.
thanks for the information and those tips, very useful things
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wish it’d be a little more descriptive…How would it ask for the folder name? It’s not clear if it applies to all the flavors of windows….
it’s just a simple batch program that will rename your preferred folder, in my example I name my folder “folder”.
It’s really simple and good way to lock and unlock folder. I’ll try it. Thanks for information.
Hey friend, it will not lock your folder and unlock.it’s open your contol panel because it’s a batch progaming .