How To Password Protect A Folder Using Notepad

              Everyone has some private data to be secured at some point of time. Sometimes we have to share our laptops, desktops to our friends, relatives and neighbor’s it is important to lock that private data which we can’t share with them. There are various methods to password protect folders/files using third party software’s. But now this post will show you how to lock folders with password using Notepad and without any external software’s help.

Here is the procedure to lock your folder with a password

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See Also:How to password protect files or folder using WinRAR

Step 1:

     Open notepad in your Computer.

Step 2:

Copy the below code as it is into notepad.

cls

@ECHO OFF

title Folder Lock

if Exist "folder" goto UNLOCK

if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER

:CONFIRM

echo Are you sure want to lock your 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 Locker "folder"

attrib +h +s "folder"

echo Folder locked

goto END

:UNLOCK

echo Enter password to unlock folder

set/p "pass=>"

if NOT %pass%==1234 goto FAIL

attrib -h -s "folder"

ren "folder" Locker

echo Folder Unlocked succefully

goto END

:FAIL

echo Invalid password

goto END

:MDLOCKER

md Locker

echo Locker created successfully

goto End

:End

Step 3:

Now replace “1234” with your own password in the line

if NOT %pass%==1234 goto FAIL

Step 4:

Save notepad as “folderlock.bat” and change Save as type to “All files”.

Step 5:

Now a batch file has been created with the name folderlock

Double click on batch file so that a "Locker" named folder will be created.

Step 6:

Copy files into the "locker" folder which you have to keep secured.

Step 7:

And again double click on folder lock batch file.

Now command prompt will ask you to “Are you sure want to lock your Folder(Y/N)

Now Enter “Y” if you want to lock else “N”

Your folder will be locked and hidden.

Step 8:

To unlock your folder again double click on you folder lock batch file

Command Prompt will now ask you to” enter password to unlock ”.

Enter your password to unlock.

Don’t forget to save your locked files other than Installation drive because if your operating system get crashed you may lose your data.

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