How to password protect any folder without any software

In my previous post i have teach you to hide Files/Folder.In this tutorial i will show you interesting and useful trick to password protect folders without using any software using batch file programming.This trick will work on all windows plat form(win xp,win 7). Follow below tutorial to learn this trick.

How To Lock Folder?

• Open notepad and copy code given below into it

cls
@ECHO OFF
title coolhacking-tricks.blogspot.com
if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST MyFolder goto MDMyFolder
:CONFIRM
echo Are you sure to lock this 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 MyFolder "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
echo Folder locked
goto End
:UNLOCK
echo Enter password to Unlock Your Secure Folder
set/p "pass=>"
if NOT %pass%== computertips103 goto FAIL
attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" MyFolder
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid password
goto end
:MDMyFolder
md MyFolder
echo MyFolder created successfully
goto End
:End

• Save the notepad file as lock.bat(.bat is must)
• Now double click on lock.bat and a new folders will be created with name my folder.
• Copy all your data you want to protect in that new folder.
• Now double click on lock.bat and when command prompt appears "Type Y" and press enter.
• Now my folder will be hidden from you view,to access that folder double click on lock.bat.
• It will ask for password enter your password and done.(Default password is computertips103).

* To change the password replace computertips103 with new password in the above code.

How To Further Secure?

You might be thinking that anyone can assess the password by opening that lock.bat file in Notepad or any other text editor.To make it more secure hide lock.bet in some secure location after following the above tutorial to access the secured file double click on lock.bat. I would suggest copying lock.bat file into pendrive and copying it into your computer whenever you required to access to your protected file.

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Folder Colorizer:change Icone Color Of Any Folder In Window

While searching through a huge number of folders,it is common for users to miss the one thing that they are looking for.This is due to the fact that,when faced with a lot of similar looking items,the ones with the same color are categorized together by the human brain.the default yellow color for folders chosen by Microsoft to be used in windows Explorer is pleasing to he eyes,but it also makes differentiating between all the folders a  difficult task.Whenever you look inside a folder containing a large number of sub folders,they all look the same to you because they are of the same color.What i have done to tackle that problem is choose a different icon for all the frequently used icons,but that requires you to separately access the setting of each folder and change their icon.it can be quite useful,however,if the number of folders is huge,it can turn out to be quite a tedious task.

Let's we begin  here....

Step 1: Download the Folder Colorize application Click on "Folder Colorizer"Here, Then run this exe. file.
Step 2:At First, select the individual folder which you want to colorize with any different color.
Step 3:Place the cursor on the folder and press the 'right click'
Step 4:From the appeared the menu,select the colorize option and select the required color.
Step 5:As you will select the required color,your selected folder will instantly change form yellow to that color.
Step 6:If you want to colorize the folder with custom color,then select the 'Custom' option after selecting the 'Colorize' option.
Step 7:Just pick up thee required color from the given window and click on the 'Add color' option.
Step 8:As you add this color,it will save as the preset color and then,you will be allowed to colorize any folder with this color.

 
  How to Restore the original color of the folder

Step 1: If you want to restore the standard color of any folder,just press the 'right click'on the folder.
Step 2:Select the 'Colorize' option and then click on  the 'Restore original color' option.
Step 3:After this step,the color of the folder instantly changes to the standard yellow color.

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Security Tip:How to Hide Files/Folders using Command Prompt

First,One of the things that I'm interested in it and important to me is "Security" so today i will teach to hide any kind of Files & Folders using Command prompt.

Let's hide some Files/Folders

• Open Command prompt

• Type this Command \attrib "Your File/Folder Path" +S +R +H

           For Example:-

1. To hide a File (Type the file extension)attrib"D:\Text.txt"+s+r+h
2. TO hide a Folder attrib"D:\NEW FOLDER"+s+r+h

 Your File/Folder should be hidden now,even if you tried to change setting of Folder option
 Its wont work!!!!!

Now How to unhide it???

Retype the Command Again But this time change all the (+) signs with (-) sign link this
attrib"Your File/Folder path" -s-r-h and that's it.

Enjoy hiding File/Folders.

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