Change Folder to ControlPanel

There are situations where you want to have your data secured. Hiding folder is typical way one would go for but everyone would be aware of un-hiding them. Here is one way of encrypting the data.

With this one can change the folder to control panel, technically you will use a bat file and change the folder to control panel. On double click of this folder, it would take you to control panel instead of taking to the folder contents.

Control panel will be identified using the keystring "21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D" in Windows XP and "ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C" in Windows 7. Do the below steps to change the folder to control panel.

• Lets say you have a folder named "Example" in which you have some confidential information.
• Open text pad and write the contents as given below
  ren Example ControlPanel.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} 
• Rename this file to <SomeFileName>.bat 
• When you double click the file you can see that your folder "Example" will be converted to "ControlPanel"

Do the below steps to revert back to Example folder

• Lets say you have a folder named "Example" in which you have some confidential information.
• Open text pad and write the contents as given below
  ren ControlPanel.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} Example
• Rename this file to <SomeFileName>.bat
• On double click this file you can see that your control pane will be converted back to "Example" folder.
  

Note : This post is only for those who are new to the computers and not meant to the people with average skills on internet browsing.