simple folder locker

I'm going to show you how to make a simple folder locker by just useing note pad.

This is my first instructable so tell me what my mistakes were and how i can improve my next instructable.

Step 1 Open up notepad.

First you need to open up notepad. Go to start, run and type in notepad or go to start, all programs, accesories, notepad.

Comments

[life-is-beautiful]

hey. well i like the batch my friend gave it to me to keep certain things hidden, but it really dont offer much security. so i went and edited it like mad. one of the things i did was that in the FAIL string i added the shutdown code. and i changed it so that the text will turn red if you get the password wrong and green if you get it right or lock the folder.  i dont know if you know how to do that and if you want ill tell you., (not saying your bad at batch (i am) but just helping another programmer). and i really do recamend that you put the shutdown code under the FAIL string. i mean that will stop more people from entering your "hidden" files. and other then my edits its a very good batch but it wont stop someone who knows alot about comps (duh) well im sure your tired of reading about my editing so yea ill stop typing. HAPPY PROGRAMMING

[pyro515]

I had made one like that one time where if you got it wrong it would turn off the computer and i had another one that would that if you got wrong it would set off an alarm from the internal speaker of the computer but I am done with batch. Now i am programing php for a website

[jsvitlik]

Who cares if you are programming php? PHP is not a computer language, but more of a webpage language like css and html.. It is completely irrelevant to MS-DOS

[ýá]

attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" (Folder Name)

[ýá]

this thing easy to hack~
if got another locker also md locker the loker also can open ur files
or attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" (Folder Name)
that can open the lock folder

[life-is-beautiful]

oh and this is my edited version:
cls
@ECHO OFF
title Folder Locker
if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER
:CONFIRM
color 0e
echo Lock?(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.
PAUSE
goto CONFIRM
:LOCK
color 0a
ren Locker "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
echo Folder locked
pause
goto End
:UNLOCK
color 0e
echo What is the password?
set/p "pass=>"
if NOT %pass%== goto FAIL
color 0a
attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Locker
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
PAUSE
goto End
:FAIL
color 0c
echo Invalid password
pause
goto end
:MDLOCKER
md Locker
echo Locker created successfully
pause
goto End
:End

[Saturn V]

Is this the one with the shutdown code in it?

[life-is-beautiful]

 if you want the shutdown code goto the part of the code that says :FAIL after invalid password hit enter and type in shutdown -s -f -t (insert time) -c (insert message to be displayed) for the time and the message hit space before you type them in

[Saturn V]

Thanks!  I have a freind I need to get back at.

[life-is-beautiful]

 no problem at all

[jovanjekralj]

if you want to make sure that no one can hack it just download .bat to .exe converter. so no one cad edit the file and view the password

[m a r k o]

well done
thanks

[foolishboy]

Well done mate!

[erikals]

Great Instructable, however: You need to make the folder locker file more secure.

[sheepborg]

'I have found the solution to the problem of insecurity'
1 do the Instructable
2 make a shortcut to the locker in the same folder after locker file folder is done
3 rename the locker "key"
4 make the "key" read only and hidden
5 rename the shortcut "lock"
6 in properties of "lock" change the icon to the lock looking one
7 also in properties go to colors and change all of the colors to black for invisibility (optional)
8 finally make "lock" read only
questions pm me for pic ect if you need them

[elmynase]

so if you want to block lets says some text, you need to put the text in the locker file right ?

[jovanjekralj]

Yes is tried it. It works

[Rhyslightning69]

legandary u are awsome lol

[I3uckwheat]

can some one give me a bat to exe converter

[Crazy Leprecaun]

If you really need a locked folder or file(s), you can use a program called TrueCrypt. It is really secure. So secure, in fact, it complies with government standards. However, you would have to install it on your computer, and some people have to use a public computer, which would not allow that.

[teknoman]

actually, idk if this is just with the newer versions on Truecrypt, but if u plug in a flash drive, u can set up a Traveler Disk they call it, which puts a portable excecutable version of truecrypt on ur flashdrive, i use it all the time, if u need specific instructions on this, go to their website. hope this helped.

[pyro515]

im preat sure i could just set up a server in linux on my 4gb flash drive then install it on there

[oddelyodd]

cool locker but the it people are smart they took my flash drive from me because I shut down all the computers at the tech center and the locker works but they can edit the batch file when i convert it to exe it seems to not want to work just blank command prompt and just sits there for long time sorry if i don't respond for a wile i am busy thanks

[pyro515]

hmm... im not for sure you mite want to check your exe converter mabey its not write or something....

[pyro515]

well.... I am not for sure... I mite be amble to come up with something but it want be secure.... see you can store stuff like as a log of some sort so if you were to store something then be able to recover it then that would work.... i guess... its been a while since i have messed with batch files.... I am mainly in to making programs for the Ti-84 and I am thinking about making a instructable for it...

[collard41]

a bit irrelevant to this instructable, but as this is for batch files hopefully you will know. how do you make system variables that do not go when you exit the batch file or restart the computer, in a batch file.

[berky93]

can someone tell me how to set a location for the folder that is created instead of the same folder as the batch file? I want to place the original batch file some obscure place and then make a shortcut to it, so that I can change the icon. but it only lets you make the folder where the batch is

[pyro515]

hmm.... i know that you can change the name of the folder it creates but i dont think you can change the file path i think that you would have to read up on unix or something like that.... lets see here...... ren Locker "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" this is the code that creates the folder 21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D this seems to be an id of the file path of some sort...... C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\Desktop\Locker 21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D hmm.... well the first 3 parts of the file path can be differnet on were you put them.... you know what i think that you would have to make a lable of some sort and put it in the batch file to have it to go to the folder because the code aparntly just makes a folder so if you were to have something like this..... :whatever goto "file path" whatever im not quit for sure i need to refresh my self on my batch skills i have manly been working with basics for a ti 84

[Satnam_Sakhi]

When i tried the program, it works. But suppose i enter the wrong password in the first time, the program closes, and the locker folder will appear again. How do i overcome that??

[pyro515]

"cough" if you right click on the batch file "COUGH" and go to edit it opens it up in notepad then you can change it then just resave it "cough"

[Scammah]

and also I can still see the folder and open it

[pentec]

I'm running vista too and gettin the same problem as you Scammah, so its not just you haha

[rodeleros]

That is COOOL!!!
thanks!!!
i needed that to put my other batch files in. so people wouldn't go deleting it or whatever.=)
anyway, great job. and really easy to do!=)

[I3uckwheat]

does any body know how to make it so that they cant close it

[pyro515]

Actuly it works thats how i have all of my stuff on my flash drive/thumb drive also I have one that has an alarm to it so if some ones gets the pasword wrong it sets off this annoying beeping sound that comes from the computers internal speaker

[dopefinger]

The folder is still visible but it opens up the control panel. But if I rename it, it will open right up. I have XP also

[godp777]

how would this work if you put this batch file as an executable on a thumb drive... would it provide portable folder locking or not...???my coworkers and i swap thumb drives very frequently and theres things on my thumb drive that i dont want people to erase so if i hide em this way the only way they could erase them is too format the the thumb drive..which they wont because they are my coworkers..

[ker-boom101]

hha thanks so much the instructrables didnt work so well for me i dont know why i also put a invisible folder in it and put all my stuff in there

[pyro515]

If your running Vista that could be the problem...

[ker-boom101]

no im running xp im not that great at batch and olowing instructions XD so it might be just me