How to Lock a Folder Using Notepad
There are plenty of software which lock your folders, some are free, other costs a lot of money. Why you’ll waste time and money when you could do it with your notepad.
* Consider you want to lock a folder named PICS in your D:\, whose path is D:\PICS
* Now open the Notepad and type the following
ren pics pics.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
* Where pics is your folder name. Save the text file as loc.bat in the same drive.
* Open another new notepad text file and type the following
ren pics.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} pics
* Save the text file as key.bat in the same drive.
Usage:
* To lock the pics folder, simply click the loc.bat and it will transform into control panel icon which is inaccessible.
* To unlock the folder click the key.bat file. Thus the folder will be unlocked and the contents are accessible.
That’s all.
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