did anyone know about this? locking folders

1.Right click on any blank space on your desktop.
2.Click New.
3.Click Folder.
4.Name the folder safe.
5.Open your Notepad, copy and paste this code into it:
ren safe safe.{2559a1f2-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0} and save it with .bat extension. Ex. key.bat Save such a file on the desktop.
6.Double click the key.bat and the folder and its content will be permanently locked!



7.To unlock the folder, create another .bat file or delete the content of the key.bat file and paste this other code:
ren safe.{2559a1f2-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0} safe and click it.
8.Done!


Carmine

Wow, that's excellent. :) I will try it on my home pc. Work PC doesn't allow right click on desktop.

Yeah! this changed the icon to a lock one. But,
How is it locked, I can read and write from and to the folder?

Bill2 said:

If I needed to protect files/folders, i would just use a free, simple solution like Truecrypt.

Thumbs Up!

Bill2 said:

This is an old trick, popular in the XP days. Problem with it is that anybody can right click that batch, click Edit and change/view the password. That defeats the entire purpose.

A few ways to make it work is to password protect the batch itself, remove the batch to a different location say a thumb drive, compile the batch into an exe (so outsiders cant see the code) etc., but that kinda makes it tedious.

If I needed to protect files/folders, i would just use a free, simple solution like Truecrypt.

the .bat files ( of course ) are in a different location


how do you compile the batch into an exe ??? sounds cool

pacinitaly said:

Bill2 said:

This is an old trick, popular in the XP days. Problem with it is that anybody can right click that batch, click Edit and change/view the password. That defeats the entire purpose.

A few ways to make it work is to password protect the batch itself, remove the batch to a different location say a thumb drive, compile the batch into an exe (so outsiders cant see the code) etc., but that kinda makes it tedious.

If I needed to protect files/folders, i would just use a free, simple solution like Truecrypt.

the .bat files ( of course ) are in a different location


how do you compile the batch into an exe ??? sounds cool

http://sysadmingeek.com/articles/convert-a-batch-bat-script-to-an-executable-exe-file/

Thanks Dinesh.

pacinitaly said:

Thanks Dinesh.

You're welcome.