Hoe te om een beveiligde en gesloten omslag in Vensters XP te creëren

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Hoe te om een beveiligde en gesloten omslag in Vensters XP te creëren

UPDATE: Aangezien sommige mensen kwesties met deze methode hadden om een omslag in XP (omslag die, zichtbaar via de bevelherinnering, enz. verkeerd anders wordt genoemd) te verbergen, voeg ik aan de bodem een andere manier toe een omslag permanent om te verbergen gebruikend een programma genoemd de Vrije Omslag van de Huid. Gelieve te scrollen neer om over het te lezen.

Als u over deze pagina zoekend een manier om een beschermd wachtwoord tot stand te brengen bent gekomen, is de veilige, verborgen of gesloten omslag in Vensters XP kostenloos, u aan de juiste plaats gekomen. Jammer genoeg, heeft de Vensters XP geen gebruikersvriendelijke ingebouwde hulpmiddelen om veilige omslagen op computers met veelvoudige gebruikers te creëren. Natuurlijk, kunt u gegevens coderen over uw harde schijf, maar dit helpt slechts als uw computer wordt gestolen.

In een vorige post, schreef ik over hoe u kunt verberg een omslag in Vensters XP het gebruiken van een rudimentaire ingebouwde eigenschap. Deze methode is nuttig als u een omslag of een dossier wilt verbergen en u vrij zeker bent dat iedereen wie de computer gebruikt geen idee hoe te V.N.-huid de gegevens zal hebben. Als u iemand een weinig meer savvy computer behandelt, is er een andere manier om een veilige gesloten omslag te creëren zonder het moeten enige 3de partijsoftware kopen.

Het impliceert fundamenteel het gebruiken van een manuscript aan morph de omslag in volledig verschillend iets zodat het nog zichtbaar is, maar niets binnen de omslag is toegankelijk. om de gegevens te bekijken moet u een ander manuscript aan morph in werking stellen achter het. Iedereen wie op de omslag klikt zal aan het Comité van de Controle worden gebracht en eenvoudig zal denken het is een kortere weg.

Hier zijn de stappen om de beschermde omslag in Vensters XP te creëren:

Cre�ër eerst een omslag die u zult gebruiken om uw vertrouwelijke gegevens op te slaan. Bijvoorbeeld, heb ik een geroepen omslag gecre�ërd Fonts bij de wortel van mijn aandrijving van D. Aangezien de verborgen omslag u aan het Comité van de Controle zal brengen, is het best om de omslag als één van de programma's binnen daar te noemen.

In de zelfde plaats waar u de nieuwe omslag, cre�ërt een nieuw dossier in Notepad cre�ërde, kopi�ër volgende onderstaand in het, vervang Fonts met de naam van uw omslag en bewaar het als loc.bat.

ren Fonts Fonts. {21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

Om het dossier als .bat dossier in Notepad op te slaan, zet enkel het gehele ding in citaten, als „loc.bat“ en klik dan sparen.

Now you should have a bat file named loc in the same directory as your Fonts folder, not inside the Fonts folder.

Create another NotePad file and type in the following listed below and save it as “key.bat”.

ren Fonts.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} Fonts

Now you’ll have loc.bat and key.bat along with your folder. Go ahead and double-click on loc.bat and your folder will turn into the Control Panel and nothing inside can be viewed. Clicking on it will simply bring you to the Control Panel. You’ll notice the icon should have changed also.

To view the data inside your folder again, click on key.bat and your folder will return to normal! Pretty simple!

Of course, keeping the key.bat file in the same folder will defeat the purpose of securing the folder, so it’s best to move the key.bat file somewhere else, or even better, put it on a USB stick or CD that only you can access.

Most people will be probably look at the folder and simply ignore it since it has the control panel icon and it links directly there. Of course, if someone knows this trick also, they can create their own key.bat file, etc and open it back up. However, if you’re dealing with someone who can do all of that, it’s best you check out more advanced 3rd party software to lock down a folder.

ALTERNATIVE METHOD:

If you’re having trouble with the above-mentioned method (from what I can see from the comments, a good number of people), then here’s another quick and free way to create a secure folder in Windows XP. There is a very nice program called Free Hide Folder from Cleanersoft that allows you to easily hide your private folders.

Your folders are completely hidden and you must supply a password to open the program to unhide the folders. The personal edition is free, just click the Skip Registration button unless you’re using it for commercial purposes.

I’ve tried this program myself and I cannot access the hidden folder via Windows Explorer nor the command prompt. So if the above method is not working, give this a shot!

Any questions, post a comment! Enjoy!

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38 Responses to “How to create a secured and locked folder in Windows XP”

mehdi said on : August 25th, 2007 at 2:10 am

very nice . thank you

Green Star said on : August 28th, 2007 at 10:41 am

i tried on one of my folder called CPanel, it works fine but when i locked it is renamed to CPanel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}. I can rename it back to CPanel by right clicking it. after renaming i can access folder contents. so i do not need to run key.bat,

Keehun Nam said on : August 28th, 2007 at 10:49 am

That’s ingenious!

akishore said on : August 28th, 2007 at 10:56 am

Green Star, try it again because when you click on loc.bat it should simply be named CPanel, not CPanel.XXX. Something is wrong with your code, make sure you copy it directly from my site and change only the name. First try it with the name Fonts and see if it works, then change it carefully.

Thanks!

Green Star said on : August 28th, 2007 at 11:15 am

Thanks akishore, i tried with Fonts also, same results. as long as some one is not renaming it(by right clicking), them my data is hidden. but if some one renamed it, then they can see all my data.

I directly copied code from your site, check the file name from my previous post. it is same like what you had in the site commend.

Daniel said on : August 28th, 2007 at 1:16 pm

I’m having the same experience as Green Star. Running loc.bat renames the folder as xx.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}.

akishore said on : August 28th, 2007 at 1:21 pm

I’m curious as to what operating system you guys are running (Daniel, Green Star) because I am not having this problem on my computer, which is running Windows XP.

Thanks

Daniel said on : August 28th, 2007 at 2:32 pm

Windows XP Pro Version 2002 Service Pack 2.

Michael said on : August 28th, 2007 at 2:32 pm

Same here as Daniel and Green Star, names the file Fonts.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}.

Running Windows XP Pro SP2

Brendan said on : August 28th, 2007 at 8:14 pm

What happened to the good old “Encrypted” attribute on folders? This seems like a rather overly complex way to protect a folder

akishore said on : August 28th, 2007 at 8:34 pm

Hi Brendan,

Thanks for visiting my site! That’s a great question that you have. The problem with the “Encrypted” attribute is that it does not prevent someone from accessing that folder if the person can simply log onto your computer under your name. This type of hiding is meant for people who have kids or someone else in the house that they can’t “restrict”, but they still want to hide something from! Does that make sense? Using Windows encryption only helps prevent someone from stealing your data if they take your computer and can’t log onto your account.

Aseem

i_am_the_maharishi said on : August 29th, 2007 at 12:50 am

why not use an free open source on the fly encryption utility like TrueCrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/) to create secure containers which can be loaded as a virtual drives… this is much more simple and very very very secure….

Me said on : August 29th, 2007 at 2:50 am

Hi, this tip is only effective if ‘Hide Protected System files’ is set in Tools -> View within Windows Explorer.

So hit-and-miss whether it would work for any particular PC and even then not very reliable- first thing I do on a new PC is turn all those Explorer ‘Hide’ settings off.

Cheers.

JeremyDuffy said on : August 29th, 2007 at 4:50 am

Note, if you move the batch files, you will have to adjust the code to compensate. For example, if your folder is in c:\temp (e.g., c:\temp\Fonts), and you put the batch files in c:, you will now have to code them like this:

ren c:\temp\Fonts c:\temp\Fonts.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

and

ren c:\temp\Fonts.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} c:\temp\Fonts

Neo said on : August 29th, 2007 at 7:34 am

uhmmmm….. yeah thanks guys for the tutor.it qorks well, but right now its not my main conern, I REALY NED HELP.IS IT POSSILE TO BYPASS or ACIVATE XP WITHOUT BEGGING MS FOR THE KEY? I m runni on 4days. I ‘ll buy you a coke and a pie you grant me help lol……. but seriously HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Neo said on : August 29th, 2007 at 7:37 am

see what its doing to me? I m even misspelling the words. lol

xylph said on : August 29th, 2007 at 8:03 am

That’s an ingenious tip, a nice way to utilise Windows itself instead of using a third-party software.
I’m not very tech savvy, but I’m interested to know more about how renaming a folder can redirect you to another folder. Perhaps you can give me a link? Thanks!

Evan said on : August 30th, 2007 at 12:28 pm

I never thought of using clsid folders to hide contents. What this basically does is use the .{—–} as an extension }or class}. You can lookup clsids for most of the system folders. I have recently compiled a list of all of them because I’m planning to create a new control panel using html.

You could do a my documents folder with a secret my documents folder hidden behind it.

Note: This works for everything communicating through the windows API. If you connect through telnet, ftp, etc… the filename will be viewed as a filename (and wont hide the extension}. If you download it and you’re running windoze it should still work as a link since the clsid is basically a memory space assigned to be a direct shortcut to the specified folder.

Richard FDisk said on : August 30th, 2007 at 5:41 pm

I use a two or three step method for “Sensitive Documents”

1) use the “E” encrypted folders on external (NTFS formatted) hard drives / USB (NTFS formatted) chips, so if some one boosts my drive / chip they can’t access the files in the folder (unless they plug it into my pc) and
2) then within that “E” encrypted folder, I use a password protected zipped folder created with WinZip,

so now if someone boosts the drive they not only have to connect it to my PC, they also have to contend with cracking the password of the encrypted WinZip Archive.

step three is only for apps that offer it.
3) any time an application offers the use of passwords for a document, spreadsheet etc. use it. then do step 1 & 2

(the one exception is; if that “someone” can create a pc with the same: “computer name, user name(s), domain / workgroup name etc.” then the “E” encryted folder is effectively bypassed and accessible, but “they” still have to contend with the password protection on the files in the “Zipped” folder and then, for apps that offer passwords, any file that is individually password protected by the app. it was created with.)

Cheers
RfD
(no I’m not hyper paranoid, but these steps I use to protect customer information in files).

Clos1 said on : August 31st, 2007 at 1:13 pm

This is very kool -thanks for sharing, I sure would like to know more=) ????????

Decoy said on : September 3rd, 2007 at 10:06 pm

by the simply commandshell like FAR Manager or TotalCommander you can easy enter into “Fonts.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}” and have to see all inside, also you can delete or rename this folder.

so this metod works with lasy users who uses WinExplorer

Gladkov Oleg said on : September 5th, 2007 at 5:57 am

loc.bat:
@echo [.ShellClassInfo]>.\Fonts\desktop.ini
@echo CLSID={21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}>>.\Fonts\desktop.ini

key.bat:
del .\Fonts\desktop.ini

Dark said on : September 5th, 2007 at 11:52 pm

You can see and access to hidden folder from de windows console:

cd font*

hofshi said on : September 9th, 2007 at 10:23 am

I encountered the same issue like GreenDay. The folder is renamed to :
Fonts.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
instead of to
Fonts

So it is fairly easy to access the “locked” folder.

Running Win XP Pro SP2

Theodorik O'Broin said on : September 10th, 2007 at 9:47 am

Hi,

Just tried this and I see how well it works… from Windows Explorer! NOT the CMD prompt though.

Is there any way to make this a proper “full” secure and locked folder in XP?
Otherwise, I’ll have to find another solution.

Cheers,

db

vipin said on : September 11th, 2007 at 1:45 am

can i creat it only in d: drive or any where i can notable to make bat file wht you write just clear it

hort said on : September 11th, 2007 at 1:53 am

Thanks akishore, i tried to protect folder like you recommand but it have problem like Green Star that when i run loc.bat is renames the folder as xx.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}. so i can’t lock folder because it can rename and open it. i use windows xp sp2

akishore said on : September 11th, 2007 at 8:27 am

Ok, I just updated this post with another method for creating a private hidden folder, so check that out at the bottom if you’re still having trouble!

Thanks!

Sex Pistol said on : October 3rd, 2007 at 7:48 pm

Very cool technique - However, I can still search for files. How can we prevent the files from showing up in the search? Thanks.

OM said on : October 7th, 2007 at 10:38 am

thanks

serial_samurai said on : October 10th, 2007 at 1:45 pm

in all honesty, if you need an operating system and don’t want to pay Microsoft the money, take the time and look into Ubuntu which is based off of Debian. its been a very easy distro of Linux to learn compared to some of the others I’ve run into.

rajesh said on : October 27th, 2007 at 8:01 am

Dear All,

I have system with OS(Windows XP), This is useing many people, But I have created folders which is having confidential things, In this case those folder need to make security for that how i can set the setting like password to open folder.
King expecing the right response to solve this.

With Regards
Rajesh

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