Saturday, May 12, 2012

HOW TO LOCK/HIDE/PASSWORD A FOLDER ON A COMPUTER

| Saturday, May 12, 2012 | 2 comments

There was a particular time I shared a trick on how to hide folder in a mobile phone and I promised to share the trick on how to hide folder on computer too. I made some research and gathered information and by God's grace, I'll be sharing the trick on how you can hide a folder on your computer with you now. Thereby, fulfilling my promise. But before then, please note that the previous post on hiding folder on mobile phone works only if your phone is Java enabled, if you are a symbian phone user, well, you'll exercise a little bit of patience. One beautiful thing about this trick I'm about sharing with you is that, it doesn't require installation of any software. It's only a compilation of codes which you need to copy from here and paste into your note pad in your computer. Note that, after copying and pasting the code, you can save it with any name of your choice, but you'll need to save it as a batch file. For example, If I intend to save the folder with the name MYhiddenDOCUMENTS then, to save it as a batch file, I'll name my folder as MYhiddenDOCUMENTS.bat that's that on naming our folder. But in case you don't know how to locate the notepad on your computer, just

  • start up your computer
  • click on start
  • click on all programs
  • select accessories
  • then click on notepad once you're done with that, copy the code which I posted in red at the bottom of this post: and save it as any name you like .bat
    After you've saved your code, you'll see a batch file. Double click on this batch file to create a folder locker, a new folder named Locker would be formed at the same location, now bring all the files or folder you want to hide in the Locker folder. Double click on the batch file to lock the folder namely 'locker' if you want to view or unlock your files, double click on the batch file and you would be prompted for password enter your desired password and enjoy access. Now anyone who can view your locked files need to know the password first.

    Now the code:



    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%==type 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

    Sure you're now happy to know you can hide your important folders under a password. Now no body can come to your computer and edit or access your private documents again.

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  • 2 comments:

    Unknown said...

    i have copied dis code nd also saved with extension .bat but after done all dis its not working no folder is created...

    Ayz said...

    @ANUBHAV, try again, you're likely to have missed a part of the codes, it's working perfectly

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