All of us must have some files which we don’t want to share with anyone around the world. In Windows 10 you can easily tuck files in a secret folders which are password protected. You can protect the files with password without any additional software. In order to lock a folder with password in Windows 10 you need to follow these simple steps.
- 1st of all you need to right-click inside the folder where the files which you need to protect are located.
- From the contextual menu you need to select New.
- After this you need to click on Text Document.
- After this you need to click on Enter
- Now in the next step you need to double click the text file in order to open it.
- Once the text file is opened you need to paste the following text.
cls
@ECHO OFF
title Folder Locker
if EXIST “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}” goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER
:CONFIRM
echo Are you sure u want to Lock the 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 Locker “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 folder
set/p “pass=>”
if NOT %pass%==Your-Password-Here goto FAIL
attrib -h -s “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”
ren “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}” Locker
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid password
goto end
:MDLOCKER
md Locker
echo Locker created successfully
goto End
:End
- Now in the next step you need to find “Your-Password-Here” in the document.
- Now you have to replace “Your-Password-Here” with the password which you want to set for locking the folder.
- Now click on File and then select Save As.
- Now click on the Text Documents (*.txt*) menu bar which is next to “Save as type:”
- Noe select All Files.
- Now change the name of the file to “FolderLocker.bat” and click Save.
- Now double click on FolderLocker.
- Thats it your Locker folder has been generated.
- Now you need to fill the Locker folder with all the items which you want to protect.
- Now Open the FolderLocker file as it’s the time to lock the folder.
- Now you need to type Y into the screen.
- Click Enter and the Folder Locker window will vanish and your secrets are save now.
- In order to unlock the folder you need to double click FolderLocker to open it.
- Enter the password which you have set.