How to Lock folder on windows using recycle bin ?

Lock folder on Windows

Hello friends, here i am going to share tip which will help you to lock folder for protecting your important data as well as data that required to lock for preventing access. there are lots of utilities available that will help you to achieve this, but all are some how trial version or limited version.

So, if you want to lock folder on your pc please follow below steps. note that these changes are under windows registry so, avoid to implement if you are not well enough technically known person .

here are the way you can lock any folder using recycle bin :

open Run in your computer or press (ctrl +R) and type ‘regedit‘ commandYou can list of keys and relates values.navigate through list until you find CLSID no of recycle bin in registry editor

For example:
CLSID no of recycle bin is >> {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

Now its time to lock folder using recycle bin so, lets say you want to lock folder named ‘Folder1?

so inside notepad editor type following text like:

ren folder1 recycle.
{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

and save that files as lock.bat

To unlock related Lock folder , you can create another batch file which will unlock folder.Type below line in another notepad file and save that as ‘unlock.bat’

ren recycle.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

So, when ever you want to lock folder execute created lock.bat and reverse then execute unlock.bat !!

Hope you understand it !

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