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How to make a Batch Folder Protector

How to make a Batch Folder Protector

This Instructable will show you how to make... well, the clue is in the name. This is for beguinners so if you are familiar with batch then you probably just need to look at the scripting. All you will need is notepad. NOTE: If you are going to be scripting often then I reccommend that you download notepad++. It is free and a very good tool for scripting. Click here to download it.

If you can't be bothered to script it yourself, copy and paste it from the last step.
If you are a newbie to batch, but want to start learning, download my list of basic batch commands, also on the last step.
SORRY ABOUT THE SIZE OF THE PICTURES

Anyway, first, open notepad
 
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Step 1The first commands

The first commands
First, type:

@echo off
title (your title here)
color 02

What this does is:
1. Stops commands (@echo off, title, etc) from bieng displayed on screen.
2. Sets the title (what it says in the blue bar at the top) to whatever change "(your title here)" to.
3. Sets the color to green. You can find out the numbers of  more colors in my list of basic batch commands
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