How to create a lockedfolder in Win XP without any software

To create a locked folder we need to create two
batch files. The first batchfile will “lock” the folder
(actually it will turn the ordinary folder into a link
to the Control Panel using an address code), and
the other one will “ unlock” it. When someone
tries to access that folder, he will be redirect to
Control Panel(we can in fact type in any address
code so that the user could be redirected to
wherever we want). You should hide these batch
files, especially the second one.
1. Create a folder, that you will use to store your
protected data. For this example, I created a folder
called “locked”, and put that folder in My
Documents.
2. Open Notepad and copy this code ren
“FOLDERNAME” “FOLDERNAME“.
{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-
A2DD-08002B30309D}
“FOLDERNAME” change in to name of your folder,
in this example “FOLDERNAME” is locked.My code
looks like this ren locked.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-
A2DD-08002B30309D} locked
Save notepad file like lock.bat in My Documents.
In option Save as Type, select All Files
3. Open another notepad file and copy this code
ren “FOLDERNAME“.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-
A2DD-08002B30309D} “FOLDERNAME” ,
Save file as in Step 2, just choose a different
filename , like unlock.bat
After this we can see in My Documents
something like this:
If we open (double click) lock.bat our folder will
turn into a link to Control Panel, and the files will
not be visible. until we use unlock.bat