Create Undeletable Unrenamable Folders in Windows

For Windows operating system, we have a lots of security tools available to protect our files and folders from unauthorized access. We can lock them in a hidden vault using software like Folder Lock, put password on folders/files using Password Folder and many powerful locker software.

These tools either hide your confidential material or lock other users’ access so that no one can even view the content but that’s not the case always! Sometimes, we want to allow them view our material but limit only their suspicious actions(such as Deleting, Renaming) that can harm the content. Available locker software don’t provide such view-only rights to your folders.

So, if you have such kind of requirement then don’t go for such folder/file locker software. There is a very simple Windows trick which will help you achieve your aim i.e., “provide only viewing rights to your content and block delete and rename actions from those folders” without using software or script at all.

Create Undeletable And Unrenamable Folders ?

• 1. Go to Start and then Click on Run
• 2. Type CMD & hit enter (To open Command Prompt ).
• 3. Remember you cannot create Undeletable & unrenamable folder in your root directory (i.e. where the windows is installed) That means you can't make this kind of folder in C: drive if you installed windows on C:
• 4. Type D: or E: and hit enter
• 5. Type md con\ and hit enter (md - make directory)
• 6. You may use other words such as aux, lpt1, lpt2, lpt3 up to lpt9 instead of con in above step.
• 7. Open that directory, you will see the folder created of name con.
• 8. Try to delete that folder or rename that folder windows will show the error message.

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Delete Undeletable/Unrenamable folder?

So, if you have done with the required task with these undeletable-unrenamable folders and want to delete them, you can’t delete them manually as Windows will not allow. So, deleting undeletable-unrenamable folders will also be done from Command prompt. Follow these steps to delete undeletable/unrenamable folders in Windows:

• 1. Open command prompt
• 2. Type D: or E:, the drive letter where you have created the folder.
• 3. Type rd con\ command to remove the folder named con (rd=remove directory).
• 4. Now, open the drive, you’ll not find the folder here as it has been deleted.

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