How to Lock Folders in Windows 10 (Without software Installation)

We Lock or Hide our Personal folders in Windows using Third-Party Software, but we can lock or hide our folder (Files, Images, Music even Videos) with out any software installation just using a simple command prompt code.

1st Step : Right click on a folder which one you want to hide and select New > Text Document, just give any name to the document we will work about it later.

In this example i am selected My Folder to lock.

2nd Step:  Open the created new text document and paste the below code.

Code for Folder Lock::

  cls

 @ECHO OFF

 title My Folder

 if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK

 if NOT EXIST Secure 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 Secure "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 the Password to unlock folder

 set/p "pass=>"

 if NOT %pass%== windows10 goto FAIL

 attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

 ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Secure

 echo Folder Unlocked successfully

 goto End

 :FAIL

 echo Invalid password

 goto end

 :MDLOCKER

 md Secure

 echo Secure created successfully

 goto End

 :End

3rd Step: In this code we need to set our password in the password section. (which is in Green color with underline). give a desired password name for your lock folder in that place.

4th Step: Select File Menu and Choose Save As Option and give any desired name for your file with a .bat extension and Set Save as type as " All files and click save.

[.bat means batch code - It is an internal command of MS-DOS]

5th Step: Double Click on that batch file which you created in the 4th step. Choose Y or y in the command Prompt and Press Enter. My folder is gone, which is disappeared from File explorer.

6th Step : To retrieve your hidden folder just double click on .bat file and enter your password which is set in the 3rd step. Voila Your Hidden Folder is Appeared again.