Sometimes you need some privacy for your files in windows and just hiding it is not a good idea!

You may need a protected place which can't be accessed by others. Here we come with a tutorial to make a locked or protected folder in windows using notepad.

Actually you're about to create a batch file, which will let you to do so.

So lets start!

Step 1:

Open notepad and paste the following code in it.

cls
@ECHO OFF
title Folder LockedFolder
if EXIST "tG Locker" goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST LockedFolder goto tGlocker
:CONFIRM
echo Do you really wanna lock this 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 LockedFolder "tG Locker"
attrib +h +s "tG Locker"
echo Folder locked
goto End
:UNLOCK
echo Enter password to unlock if you are folder owner
set/p "pass=>"
if NOT %pass%== techgoogles goto FAIL
attrib -h -s "tG Locker"
ren "tG Locker" LockedFolder
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Dont try to access others data
goto End
:tGlocker
md LockedFolder
echo LockedFolder created successfully
goto End
:End

Set your password by editing highlighted part of code by yours and save it as tGlocker.bat

Step 2:

Now place that batch file (tGlocker.bat) to the location where you want to create a protected folder.
Double click on tGlocker.bat and and a folder named  LockedFolder will be created in same directory.

Then move your files and folders to be secured in LockedFolder and afterwards double click on tGlocker.bat and press Y to confirm locking it.

You have sucessfully locked your private files!

Step 3:

Now to unlocked folder, double click on tGlocker.bat and enter 'techgoogles' or your password.

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Method 1: Editing Registry

Step0 ‬Goto run.
Step1 ‪‬Type 'regedit' without quotes.
Step2‪‬ Click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. ‪
Step3‪‬ goto SYSTEM. ‪
Step4‪‬ Click on CurrentControlSet. ‪
Step5‪‬ Click on services ‪
Step6‪‬ Goto USBSTOR ‪
Step7‪‬ Double click on 'Start' where value is 3.  ‪

Step8 ‪‬Now change the value data with 4.
‪Step9‪‬ Now press ok and refresh your desktop your USB port is disabled.

 To enable it again, do this:‪‬ To enable the usb port replace the value 4 with 3.

Method 2: Using Device Manager

Go to start and search for "Device Manager".

 Click on 'Universal Serial Bus controllers and enable or disable by right-clicking on them.

Method 3: Using USB block/unblock app.

The easiest way is - just use the simple exe app.

  Download USB block/unblock