How to create a password protected folder on PC?

Create Your Password Protected Folder

Before you get started you need to create a folder that will house your password protected folder, this is just an ordinary folder and can be located anywhere and named anything.

Navigate into your newly created folder and create a new Text Document. This can easily be done from the context menu.

Open the NotePad, Then paste the following code into the contents of the document:-

cls

@ECHO OFF

title Files

if EXIST "Locker" goto UNLOCK

if NOT EXIST Files goto MDLOCKER

:CONFIRM

echo Are you sure to lock the folder?(Yes/No)

set/p "cho=>"

if %cho%==Yes goto LOCK

if %cho%==No goto END

echo Invalid choice!

goto CONFIRM

:LOCK

ren Files "Locker"

attrib +h +s "Locker"

echo Folder locked!

goto End

:UNLOCK

echo Enter password to unlock folder!

set/p "pass=>"

if NOT %pass%== PASSWORD goto FAIL

attrib -h -s "Locker"

ren "Locker" Files

echo Folder Unlocked successfully!

goto End

:FAIL

echo Invalid password!

goto end

:MDLOCKER

md Files

echo Files created successfully!

goto End

:End

Change the "Files" words to the name of your folder you want to set. Note that the name does not contain any spaces.

Change the "PASSWORD" word to the password you want to set.

Now go ahead and save the file as locker.bat.

Once the file is saved as a batch file you can delete the original text file.

Now run your batch file by double clicking on it–the first time you run it, it will create a folder of the name you typed in the code. This is where you can store all your secret things. When you have finished adding all your stuff to that folder, Run locker.bat again.

This time you will be asked if you sure that you want to lock the folder, type "Yes" key and hit enter to lock your folder.

You will see that your folder quickly disappears.

If you run the script again, you will prompted for a password.

If you enter the same password as you set in the script the folder will reappear & if you enter the incorrect password the script will just terminate.

If You Forget Your Password

Open the batch file and read your password by Right-clicking on the locker.bat file & selecting Edit & searching the line "if NOT %pass%== (your password) goto FAIL "

It’s definitely not a really secure way to hide your files, but it is fun.