Tutorial:Locking Windows Folders without any Software Tool

Posted on September 7, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

Lazz and Marcel from Germany have dropped in a mail to Technofriends, asking for a trick/tutorial on locking any Windows folder without using a software like FolderLock.

I am putting below the entire steps to achieve this task.

In this entire tutorial post, I am assuming that the name of the folder is HideMePlease and its located in D Drive, thereby making the path to the folder as
D:\HideMePlease

The trick is pretty simple,Rename the folder ( in our case HideMePlease) to HideMePlease.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}.The renaming of the folder this way makes windows point the folder to Control Panel. This happens because of the internal pointer address in windows for Control Panel.

When this renaming of the folder is done, windows by default makes it point to the control panel. Upon clicking on the folder after renaming, Control Panel is displayed.

To get your folder back to the original one, rename it back to HideMePlease.

In order to make the entire process simple and clean, i would suggest that you make two batch files (files ending with .bat extension). One file for hiding/locking the folder; the other for getting it back/unlocking it.

1.) The batch file for hiding the folder can be named as:
Hide.bat
2.) Open notepad/your favorite text editor and type in this
//THIS FILE SHOULD BE PLACED IN d:\
REN HideMePlease HideMePlease.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

3.) The batch file for unlocking the folder can be named as
Recover.bat
4.) Open notepad/your favorite text editor and type in this
//THIS FILE SHOULD BE PLACED IN D:\
REN HideMePlease.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} HideMePlease

Thats it.

Do let me know if you found this tutorial interesting.
Cheers,
Vaibhav

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Free iPod Video Converter: Grab it here

Posted on September 2, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

I was looking for a Video Converter for iPod on the net. There are many paid softwares available, however a free one was actually on my list of wannabies.

Just to give my readers an idea of what an iPod Video Converter is; An iPod Video Convertor allows you to convert your regular PC video files (avi, mpeg, etc) into the proper video format that your iPod understands.

Free iPod Video Converter

The software, i zeroed down on is called Free iPod Video Converter.

Free iPod Video Converter provides an easy and completed way to convert all popular video formats to iPod video. You can enjoy DVD/VCD and AVI, MPEG, WMV, RM, RMVB, DivX, ASF, VOB video files in your iPod with few clicks.

Key Feature of this software are:

  • It’s clean and free, without any adware or spyware.
  • It supports all popular video formats including AVI, MPEG, WMV (ASF), RM, RMVB, DivX, ASF, VOB etc.
  • It’s stable and fast.
  • Easy-to-use wizard-like user interface helps you setup conversion process easily.
  • The output video has excellent image and sound quality.
  • ID3 Tag can be derived from the input files automatically.
  • Batch Processing is supported, it can process an unlimited number of files at one time.
  • Detailed HTML help file is included.
  • The installing and uninstalling process is very easy.

Download Free iPod Video Converter here

Cheers,

Vaibhav

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