How to Hide a Folder Using Notepad

There are plenty of software which lock your folders make your data safe from being disclosed, such as Folder Lock, etc... some are free, other costs a lot of money.

But may be there are occasions that you would like to "HIDE(not lock)" the data from somebody such as your girlfriend, wifes(in case when knowing that you are using such kind of data lock programs sparks un-smoothness between your relations), you can use the following simple methods.
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But be SURE that
1. Your girlfriend/wife is not computer literate(enough to know your technique, since there is no password protect) and
2.You are not so serious enough if he/she can see the contents(by accidents somehow, however)

Here is the steps.

* Consider you want to lock a folder named PICS in your D:\, whose path is D:\PICS

a.) Now open the Notepad and type the following
ren pics pics.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

- Where pics is your folder name. Save the text file as "loc.bat"(or whateverelse name you are only one who knows what it is) in the same drive.

b.) Open another new notepad text file and type the following
ren pics.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} pics

* Save the text file as "key.bat"(or any name in .bat) in the same drive.

USAGE:
* To lock the pics folder, simply click the loc.bat and it will transform into control panel icon(when clicked, the screen will be directed to "Control Panel" pane.
* To unlock the folder click the key.bat file. Thus the folder will be unlocked and the contents are accessible.

Tips : To make more safe(in order to other more hard to use it) don't leave the 2 batch files alone, you can zip it and keep it.(Unzip and use when needed)