Thursday 11 July 2013

How to Lock folder on windows using recycle bin

Originally posted. February 28, 2012
Hello friends, here i am going to share tip which will help you to lock folder for  protecting  your important data as well as data that required to lock for preventing access. there are lots of utilities available that will help you to achieve this, but all are some how trial version or limited version.
So, if you want to lock folder on your pc please follow below steps. note that these  changes are under windows registry so, avoid to  implement if you are not well enough technically known person :)

here are the way you can lock any folder using recycle bin :
open Run in your computer or press (ctrl +R) and type ‘regedit‘ commandYou can list of  keys  and relates values.navigate through list until you find CLSID no of recycle bin in registry editor
For example:
CLSID no of recycle bin  is >>  {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
Now its time to lock folder using recycle bin so, lets say you want to lock folder named ‘Folder1?
so inside notepad editor type  following text like
ren folder1 recycle.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
and save that files as lock.bat
To unlock related Lock folder , you can create another batch file which will unlock folder.Type below line in another notepad file and  save that as ‘unlock.bat’
ren recycle.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
So, when ever you want to lock  folder execute created lock.bat and reverse execute unlock.bat for locking folder
Originally posted. February 28, 2012

1 comment:

  1. You can actually put a password on your personal file with Folder Password Expert. I've used the program since year 2002. I do not understand why it was not mentioned in the blog post because it is probably one of the most recommended software programs of its type.

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