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Jul 26 2009

How to Hide a Folder or File in Vista and Xp

Published by iklilian at 12:51 am under advertising, blogging, internet, technology Edit This

 Well you have a folder that you want hidden but it’s too much trouble
to go into the file settings each and every time and showing hidden files and
folders. You don’t have time for that and you just want something simple!

Well here’s the
solution.  Create a new folder and hold alt+0160 while renaming the
folder.  This will cause the name to disappear!

Unfortunately now you have
a picture of a folder with no name so it makes it pretty out in the open.
Anyone can access it so it makes no sense to hide the name.  I have a
solution for this to. 

Here is what you do. 

Right click on the folder and then click on
properties:

 

Then
you click on the tab that says Customize:

 

 

After that you’ll need to
click on the button that says Change Icon:

 

Finally
you’ll need to choose a picture that best fits: they are all invisible but they
do different things.  Try logging in and out to see if you can still see
the folder.  I find that having the background black keeps things
invisible on startup so you don’t have the chance of someone seeing the
folder.  Changing the background after login does not show the folder:

  

Now
after this is all said and done you can apply the changes and this is what you
will have:

 


*NOTE*  The folder can
only be seen if selected.  The box does not show if not selected.

For those of you that need
a keyboard layout of where your keys are here is a picture I put in paint of a keyboard.  The red circles are the keys.
While holding alt the entire time press 1060 and then let go of alt.  Then
press enter. *NOTE* The two circles represent the amount of times you hit that
key. My apologies for not putting in this tutorial on how to use the keyboard
and for making my previous tutorial vague.

 

Here’s how to delete the
“Hidden” Folder

My “Hidden” Folder is on my
desktop so what I want to do is set the
command to be this:

ren
“C:UsersAdministratorDesktop(Alt+0160)” “Folder”

Press enter

Make sure that you type
ALT+0160 as Holding the alt key down and then typing those numbers.  No
parenthesis.

Cortesy: Beetleo

 

 

 

 

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