Want to know how to to lock a folder using Notepad ?

• Consider you want to lock a folder named PICS in your D:\ , whose path is D:\PICS
• Now open the Notepad and type the following
  
  ren pics pics.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
  
  
• Where pics is your folder name. Save the text file as lock.bat in the same drive.
• Open another new notepad text file and type the following
  
  ren pics.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} pics
  
  
• Save the text file as key.bat in the same drive.

• To lock the pics folder, simply click the loc.bat and it will transform into control panel icon which is inaccessible.


• To unlock the folder click the key.bat file. Thus the folder will be unlocked and the contents are accessible.