Create a password protected folder with batch file

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In this tutorial I am going to show you how to create a password protected folder with a batch file. This batch file simply hides a folder from view in a special way and then again shows the folder if the correct password is entered. Even if a person manages to get the folder while it is hidden it will seem like Control Panel, not a folder. To make the batch file save the following code as Locker.bat using notepad.

TITLE SECURE FOLDER COLOR 03 ECHO OFF SET CPSD=NX1123 CLS :START IF EXIST "NXFolder" GOTO HIDE IF EXIST "GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}" GOTO SHOW GOTO NXFOLDER :HIDE CLS ECHO. ECHO ------------------------ ECHO SECURE FOLDER - BY XBYTE ECHO ------------------------ ECHO. ECHO. CHOICE /C YN /M "Are you sure you want to lock the folder?" IF /I %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 2 EXIT REN "NXFolder" "GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}" ATTRIB /S /D "GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}" +H +S CLS ECHO. ECHO ------------------------ ECHO SECURE FOLDER - BY XBYTE ECHO ------------------------ ECHO. ECHO. ECHO Folder locked successfully! PAUSE>NUL EXIT :SHOW COLOR 03 CLS ECHO. ECHO ------------------------ ECHO SECURE FOLDER - BY XBYTE ECHO ------------------------ ECHO. ECHO. ECHO Please enter the password to unlock the folder... ECHO. SET/P "PSWD=>" IF /I %PSWD% EQU %CPSD% GOTO UNLOCK COLOR 0C CLS ECHO. ECHO ------------------------ ECHO SECURE FOLDER - BY XBYTE ECHO ------------------------ ECHO. ECHO. ECHO The password you entered is incorrect! PAUSE>NUL GOTO SHOW :UNLOCK ATTRIB /S /D "GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}" -H -S REN "GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}" "NXFolder" CLS ECHO. ECHO ------------------------ ECHO SECURE FOLDER - BY XBYTE ECHO ------------------------ ECHO. ECHO. ECHO Folder unlocked successfully! PAUSE>NUL EXIT :NXFOLDER MD NXFolder CLS ECHO. ECHO ------------------------ ECHO SECURE FOLDER - BY XBYTE ECHO ------------------------ ECHO. ECHO. ECHO Secure Folder created successfully! Put your files in it and secure it. You can unlock it anytime. PAUSE>NUL EXIT

When you first run the batch file a new folder named NXFolder will be created. Put the files you want to hide into the folder and run the batch file again and confirm that you want to hide the folder. After the folder is hidden run the batch file again and enter the password to unlock the folder. In this code as you can see in the fourth line of the batch file, the password is set to NX1123. So enter the password to unlock the folder. To change the password just edit the fourth line of the batch file.

NOTE: When you copy the batch file to another directory a new secure folder will be created. To move the secure folder to another location, first unlock the folder and copy the folder and the batch file to the new directory. Also don't use this as your only mean of security for important files.