How to Lock Folders in Windows 10 (Without software Installation)

 How to Lock Folders in Windows 10 (Without Software Installation)

We Lock or Hide our Personal folders in Windows using Third-Party Software, but we can lock or hide our folder (Files, Images, Music even Videos) with out any software installation just using a simple command prompt code.

 

1st Step : Right click on a folder which one you want to hide and select New > Text Document, just give any name to the document we will work about it later.

 

In this example i am selected My Folder to lock.

 

2nd Step:  Open the created new text document and paste the below code.

Code for Folder Lock::

  cls

 @ECHO OFF

 title My Folder

 if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK

 if NOT EXIST Secure goto MDLOCKER

 :CONFIRM

 echo Are you sure you 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 Secure "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 the Password to unlock folder

 set/p "pass=>"

 if NOT %pass%== windows10 goto FAIL

 attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

 ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Secure

 echo Folder Unlocked successfully

 goto End

 :FAIL

 echo Invalid password

 goto end

 :MDLOCKER

 md Secure

 echo Secure created successfully

 goto End

 :End

 

3rd Step: In this code we need to set our password in the password section. (which is in Green color with underline). give a desired password name for your lock folder in that place.

 

4th Step: Select File Menu and Choose Save As Option and give any desired name for your file with a .bat extension and Set Save as type as " All files and click save.

[.bat means batch code - It is an internal command of MS-DOS]

5th Step: Double Click on that batch file which you created in the 4th step. Choose Y or y in the command Prompt and Press Enter. My folder is gone, which is disappeared from File explorer.

 

6th Step : To retrieve your hidden folder just double click on .bat file and enter your password which is set in the 3rd step. Voila Your Hidden Folder is Appeared again.