How To Protect A Folder With Password In Windows

InShortViral: So in this post i’ll tell you the way to secure or protect a folder with password without any software with this.

This post will definately helps you a lot . We always want our files safe and private. As we have to share our laptops and pc with our friends at that time it is important to secure and protect some of our private data which we won’t want to share with them.

Steps To Protect a Folder With Folder Protection:

1. Click Start and Open Notepad.
2. Copy the below code and paste it in the notepad.

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

3. Now save it as Folderlock.bat.

 4. Now run the FolderLock.bat at the saved location now a folder named “Private” will be created at that directory.

 5. Now place you files which you want to protect in the “Private” folder.

 6. Now again double click the Flock file and it will ask you do you want to lock (Y/N).

 7. Type Y and the press enter, Folder “Pirvate” will then gets hide.

 8. Now again click on the FolderLock.bat file and it will ask you the unlock password and the password is techviral.

9. Thats it you folder is now secured with password everytime you want to secure your files run the FolderLock.bat and place your files in the “Private” folder and again runFolderLock.bat file which will hide the folder “Private“.

By this your content will be safe and password protected and will be not visible to anyone else and can’t be accessed by any unauthorised access. And it is very simple and easy method to secure your data as there is no requirement of any software in it only just a batch code to protect your data.

I suggest you to not to save this file in desktop or in the drive where your operating system has been installed because if you did so then whenever your opertaing system currepts all your protected data will be deleted, so save this file in any other drive as it will remain as such in that drive either your windows get currepted.

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