How to create a a file for Windows files and Windows data recovery

There are many ways for you to encrypt your files on Windows. You can use BitLock to encrypt the entire hard drive partition. You can encrypt your Word and Excel files with the office built-in feature of encryption. You can use other third-party tools to encrypt your files. However, if you do not want to use the third-party software, you can try the following way.

How to encrypt the files in Windows without third-party software?

First, you need to create a folder for the files you need to protect.

Second, right-click to open your created file folder. Right-click inside the folder,and Select new from the right-click menu and click Text Document from the context menu. Press Enter.

In the open Text document, you need to paste the below code into it.

cls

@ECHO OFF

title Folder Locker

if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK

if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER

:CONFIRM

echo Are you sure u want to Lock the folder(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.

goto CONFIRM

:LOCK

ren Locker "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

echo Folder locked

goto End

:UNLOCK

echo Enter password to Unlock folder

set/p "pass=>"

if NOT %pass%==Your-Password-Here goto FAIL

attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Locker

echo Folder Unlocked successfully

goto End

:FAIL

echo Invalid password

goto end

:MDLOCKER

md Locker

echo Locker created successfully

goto End

:End

Third, locate Your-password-Here in these long code, replace it with your password.

Fourth, click File>Save As in the document. In the Save As Window, select All files from the drop-down menu of Save as type.

Fifth, change the file name to FolderLocker.bat, Click Save

Sixth, Double-click the Folderlocker and then you will see a file folder named Locker.

Seventh, you can move all the files you need to lock to this Locker folder.

Then you can open the Windows Batch File—FolderLocker, in the Folder Locker Window, type Y and press Enter. You have successfully encrypt this file folder now.

How to De-encrypt the locked file folder?

First, double-click to open the FolderLocker Batch file, enter the password you have set, then Press Enter. Your file folder now are unlocked.

Windows data recovery tool

Encrypt is a good way to protect your important files to be accessed by others. And there are still many data loss cases on computer.If you do not put your files in right place, they are easy to be deleted by accident. Once you found the files you need disappear from their location, you should check them in the recycle bin first, if you have no backup, try to use the data recovery software at the first time.