So, today I am sharing this amazing trick with notepad through which you can Password Protect any Folder in Windows PC and you can even use this as a portable locker. This method works on every version of windows including Windows 8.1 and XP and will also gonna work on Windows 9. Step 1:- Firstly Create a new folder that will include your Password Protected Folder, in my case i Created a new folder on the desktop and named it “My Files”. Step 2:- Now open Notepad and paste the below code in it. Step 3 :- Next Change the “PASSWORD_GOES_HERE” from the above code with your desired password. :UNLOCKecho Enter password to unlock folderset/p “pass=>”if NOT %pass%== PASSWORD_GOES-HERE goto FAILattrib -h -s “HTG Locker”ren “HTG Locker” Privateecho Folder Unlocked successfullygoto End:FAILecho Invalid passwordgoto end:MDLOCKERmd Privateecho Private created successfullygoto End:End Step 4 :- Now Save the notepad file as “locker.bat” in the folder you created (You will need to select “All Files” in Notepad’s saving window in order to save the file as .bat file instead of .txt) Step 5 :- Now double click on the “locker.bat“, it will create a folder named “Private” in your Folder. Step 6 :- Now Paste those files and folders that you want to be protected in “Private” folder. Step 7 :- After pasting all files and folders double click on “locker.bat” now this time it will ask for the permission that you want to lock the folder, type “y” and hit enter. Step 8 :- That’s it, now you will see that the Private folder disappears, now if you want to unlock it just double click on locker.bat and type your password and hit enter. That’s it, you can use this method to lock any amount of files and folders. Do share your feed backs and queries in comments.
