How to create a Password Protected folder in Windows 7....

Hi folks,

We all have various kinds of personal things in our computers. Because of some reasons we want to keep those things personal. But it's hard to do that if we are sharing one computer among few people. Therefore we have to our own folder which has password to protect it from other viewers. Below steps will help you to create a hidden folder and password protected files.

• Create a new folder and name it whatever you would like.
• Open the folder, right click on a blank area in it, then select New and then select Text Document from the pop up menu.
• Open the text file you just created by double clicking on it and copy / paste in the following text

cls
@ECHO OFF
title Folder Private
if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST Private goto MDLOCKER
:CONFIRM
echo Are you sure you want to lock the folder(Y/N)
set/p "cho=>"
if %cho%==Y goto LOCK
if %cho%==y goto LOCK
if %cho%==n goto END
if %cho%==N goto END
echo Invalid choice.
goto CONFIRM
:LOCK
ren Private "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
echo Folder locked
goto End
:UNLOCK
echo Enter password to unlock folder
set/p "pass=>"
if NOT %pass%== PASSWORD_GOES_HERE goto FAIL
attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Private
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid password
goto end
:MDLOCKER
md Private
echo Private created successfully
goto End
:End

In the above code, replace the key PASSWORD_GOES_HERE with the password you want to use. For example, if your password is 123 then,

if NOT %pass%== 123 goto FAIL

• Save your new file in .bat format with a complete file name being locker.bat. To do this, make sure to change the Save as type: to All Files(*.*).
• In the folder you created earlier, double click the locker.bat file and there will now be a new folder name Private where you can put anything you want. 

• Upon existing, double click on the locker.bat file again. It will prompt you to answer weather you want to lock your folder or not. Press Y and the folder will disappear. 
• In order to retrieve the folder, all you have to do is double click the locker.bat file and enter the password which you set in step 4 and the folder will be appear again and you can access.