Remove Lock Icon From Windows

Remove Lock Icon From Microsoft Windows
version: 7, 8, 10

method 1

To remove the lock icon, we have to change the security settings on the folder to allow the Users group to, at the very least, read from the folder.

1. Right-click on the folder with the lock icon and select Properties.
2. Switch to the Security tab, and then press the Edit… button.
3. A list of groups and users that have access to the folder appears. Missing from the list will be the “Users” group. Click the Add… button.
4. enter “Users” into the text field near the bottom of the window. Click the Check Names button.
5. “Users” will change to the location of the Users group on your particular computer. In our case, this is COMPUTER\Users (COMPUTER is the name of our test machine). Click OK.
6. The Users group should now appear in the list of Groups and Users with access to the folder. You can modify the specific permissions that the Users group has if you’d like – at the minimum, it must have Read access. Click OK.
7. Keep clicking OK until you’re back at the Explorer window. You should now see that the lock icon is gone from your folder!

Notes:

You can change "Users" to: Guest or Authenticated Users

method 2

1. Right click on the folder and click on“Properties”.
2. Go to the tab “Security”.
3. Click on the “Advanced” button at the bottom.
4. Click on “Change Permission”.
5. Select your user account and check the option “Include inheritable permissions from this object’s parent”.
6. Click on apply to remove the lock icon.

The lock icon will be removed because the folder now inherits the permission of the parent folder. If that folder does not have any special permissions you will successfully remove the lock from the folder.

ref:
http://www.howtogeek.com/
https://www.groovypost.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/