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First select Your folder which you want to lock. Suppose paint is my private folder and it stored into E:\ drive. 

In the same drive ( eg. E:\) you need to create two bat file. Create a new text file there & Open it in note pad. Type in:

Quote:ren paint paint.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} 

Save it in as lock.bat 
Again open another text file and type 
Quote:ren paint.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} paint 

Now save this as a unlock.bat .


Now you can see 2 batch files lock and unlock.Double click on Press lock.bat and the folder paint's icon will change to control panel and you cannot view its contents.

Double click on unlock.bat and you will get back your original folder.

Try it!!!