did anyone know about this? locking folders

[pacinitaly]

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

 

[Dinesh]

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

 

[youllbelost]

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]

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.

 

[1337]

Lovely method. Bookmark'd this page! Thanks!

 

[youllbelost]

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

Thumbs Up!

 

[pacinitaly]

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

 

[Dinesh]

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/

 

[pacinitaly]

Thanks Dinesh.

 

[Dinesh]

Thanks Dinesh.

You're welcome.

 

[pacinitaly]

this work great, my girlfriend can't access my work stuff AT ALL

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Have a look at this one.


Folder - Lock with a Password without Any Software

 

[mborner]

Wouldn't changing folder permissions accomplish the same thing? Easier, too.

 

[DeaconFrost]

Wouldn't changing folder permissions accomplish the same thing? Easier, too.

That's the way I would do it. In the OPs example of keeping his girlfriend out of his work files, all he has to do is restrict her user account from that folder.

 

[pacinitaly]

Wouldn't changing folder permissions accomplish the same thing? Easier, too.

That's the way I would do it. In the OPs example of keeping his girlfriend out of his work files, all he has to do is restrict her user account from that folder.

it's a community machine ( she checks her mail and shops), I just don't want her seeing all my banking and other communication files. (.MHTML, .txt,.doc, .xls )

 

[DeaconFrost]

it's a community machine ( she checks her mail and shops), I just don't want her seeing all my banking and other communication files. (.MHTML, .txt,.doc, .xls )

This is why user accounts should be used if more than one person is using a computer.

 

[mborner]

This is why user accounts should be used if more than one person is using a computer.

Exactly!