How to lock a folder???

In order to restrict access to important files and folders you can lock your folder by setting password.In that way your files and folders become protected and only one can access to the folders and files who knows the password.There are a lot of method of setting password to folder,software are also available but you can also use simple method to lock your folder by using following method.It will keep your important and personal data save and secured.

First of all, create a folder that will house your password protected folder, this is just an ordinary folder and can be located anywhere and named anything.

Navigate into your newly created folder and create a new Text Document. This can easily be done from the context menu.

Open the document, now paste the following code into the text document.

cls 
@ECHO OFF 
title Folder Private 
if EXIST "HTG Locker" goto UNLOCK 
if NOT EXIST Private 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 Private "HTG Locker" 
attrib +h +s "HTG Locker" 
echo Folder locked 
goto End 
:UNLOCK 
echo Enter password to unlock folder 
set/p "pass=>" 
if NOT %pass%== PASSWORD_GOES_HERE goto FAIL 
attrib -h -s "HTG Locker" 
ren "HTG Locker" Private 
echo Folder Unlocked successfully 
goto End 
:FAIL 
echo Invalid password 
goto end 
:MDLOCKER 
md Private 
echo Private created successfully 
goto End 
:End

Change the highlited statment into password which you want to apply in code.  PASSWORD_GOES_HERE text to the password you want to set. Now go ahead and save the file as locker.bat with bat extension.









Once the code is saved as a batch file in word document you can delete the original text document file.

Now run your batch file (locker.bat) by double clicking on it–the first time you run it, it will create a folder called Private. This is where you can store all your secret things and important data. When you have finished adding all your important data  into the Private folder, run locker.bat again by simply double clicking on it.




Now run your batch file by double clicking on it–the first time you run it, it will create a folder called Private. This is where you can store all your secret things. When you have finished adding all your stuff to the Private folder, run locker.bat again.



This time you will be asked if you sure that you want to lock the folder, press the “Y” key for yes n "N" for no and hit enter to lock your folder.





You will see that your Private folder quickly disappears.



If you run locker file , you will asked to enter password.



If you enter the same password as you set in the code saved in text document, the Private folder will reappear if you enter the incorrect password the script will just Terminate.So,in this way you can set password to lock your folder.