How to Lock a Folder with a Password in Windows 10?

Many times we need to lock our folders which are having confidential files. But we don’t know how to do that. So we are providing you the process of locking folders as well as files in Windows 10.

1. Right click where you want to create lock folder & select New ->Text Document

1. Open this new created Text Document & paste below Texts in that file: –

cls

@ECHO OFF

title Folder Locker

if EXIST “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}” goto UNLOCK

if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER

:CONFIRM

echo Are you sure u 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 Locker “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 folder

set/p “pass=>”

if NOT %pass%==Your-Password-Here goto FAIL

attrib -h -s “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”

ren “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}” Locker

echo Folder Unlocked successfully

goto End

:FAIL

echo Invalid password

goto end

:MDLOCKER

md Locker

echo Locker created successfully

goto End

:End

• Find Your-Password-Here & replace your own password which you want to set on that folder
• Click on File-> Save As

1. In save as type select “All Files” & put file name as FolderLocker.bat

1. Save this file

Now you see a file named FolderLocker.bat in your folder.

1. Just run this FolderLocker.bat File. It will create a folder named “locker”

1. All your files which you want to lock copy them in Locker folder.
2. After that again run FolderLocker.bat. It will ask for your confirmation to lock. Just type Y and Enter. It will lock your folder.

Whenever you want to unlock your folder just run this FolderLocker.bat file. It will ask you for password. It will show you the folder once you enter your password