How to Lock Folders in Windows 10 without Software

How to Lock Folders in Windows 10 and make it private with password access. Keep it hidden from other users whether family and friends.

Here you can find the Folder Locking script to create Batch File

Useful Trick to store important personal and secret photos or videos whether naughty or sensitive or maybe porn stuff.

Password protect folder in Windows 10
Lock folder in windows 10 without password
Folder lock with batch script file

[oKeZo]

30 years in the business and still windows cant offer a simple password control on properties option

[anormalname]

Thank you, now my mom can't access my 100gb homework folder

[aniruddhsharma]

Thank you very much for this! Specially for an efficient 2-minute quick video unlike the others which are of 5-10 minutes.
Also, I didn't want to use a software for this to avoid any keylogger or some kinda trojans etc.

[tutohowto]

*me* : locks the 'private' folder.
*search tab* : "I'm about to end this man's whole career.

[mattcruse]

For those of you wondering why your FOLDER isn't OPENING when you type in the password
IF you use " the spacebar " in your password on the .txt file while creating your .bat file,
Make sure you do not use " the spacebar ", when typing your password in ON the cmd console.
For example, If your password was " Job 9999 " on the .txt file, It should be " Job9999 " on the console.

[thiscityschaoticatnightdadada]

You are a lifesaver! My sibling couldn't care less about the words "personal" and "data" -.-

[phillyjive]

It works the first time, but the next day... after I open it, it doesn't lock it up anymore. I pressed Y 10 times and still nothing.

[parkjinweon]

I realized that after you create the bat file you can preview the context in preview mode File Explorer. So the pass word can be found from there....

[kfpcraft]

You went through these steps fast and clearly. Thank you.

[MarshalJoel]

Good tips. The password is still exposed as the batch file is visible.
One thing we can do is, mark the .bat file as hidden from the file properties, and uncheck 'Hidden' in the Folder View menu to hide the batch file itself.
So, both the batch file and the private folder will become invisible.
Not a 100% safer approach though, but to some extent.
Cheers!

[jaimejayristenjo]

i just tried this out and it worked. Thank you for the video (2 thumbs up)

[ashtonmathias]

After making huge changes in the folder. When I press Y and enter. It won't disappear. The CMD closes and nothing happens.

[katserizawa]

You can right-click the .bat file and select edit. The notepad document will appear and you can change the password again and access the files.

[theboringprogrammer]

Thank you, now that I lost all my folders no one can steal them from me anymore!




Genius!

[williamcattr]

How do you relock the folders? After clicking and entering "y" in command prompt it unlocked, but when I closed the folder, it opened without asking me for the password. Same thing when I did a restart; folder opened up without a password.

[lrp-deadlycampfire-]

Cool, this is a good idea. But unfortunately these files are still not hidden. I searched up the keywords to the name of the file [via quick search with the windows-key] that was supposedly locked, and I was still able to access it with a single keystroke when it popped up.

[johnmarketoc]

If someone is tech-savvy he can easily determine the password by opening the file into text editors.

[Quoneel]

If you "type 1==1 (any command)" it will execute the command if 1 equals 1. And that's mostly the case so you can type "1==1 goto Unlock" and it will bring you to the Unlock-section. Thats why you should use a number-pin and the choice command. And you can also download a compiler that turns it into a .exe file, so you a´can't edit it. Hope I could help you! ☺

[AjayRajput-xnoj]

Great Video But a little bit misleading as per the title given in the video : you can recover/see your Files by going to File Options > View > Uncheck Hide System Protected Files and you can see all your files without any password : This is misleading information it hides the folder not lock it.

[sahilsontakke]

Bugs in code:
1. If the stored files in that folder are searched then it appears in search results.
2. If after locking people can still delete the bat fine, thus your files will be gone forever.