How to Hide Files and Folder on Win XP

[Muhammad Waqar]

nice tips to know
cheers

[- Empty Shell -]

nice , it works perfectly .
thanks

[Pratim]

this tricks section is very useful...............

[Expediting-INDIA]

its wonderful thank u....

[Aragorn]

nice one there

[luckymurari]

Your trick is very nice one and easier one but there is one more way 2 use the same batch programming method.

first select a folder for example i'll use a folder name movies in D drive D:\movies\

in the same drive u create a text file and type

ren movies movies.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

and save it as loc.bat

again u type in a notepad as

ren movies.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} movies

and save it as key.bat

now in D drive u can see two batch files loc and key.. when u double click loc the movie folder will change to control panel and whn u double click key the control panel will change to normal folder..




.Here u need not remember the long string everytime you want to change...instead it can be done just by clicking

[sohny]

Very nice trick!!! But I have something in my mind.... When I ran dir command I can see the the extension that i added to the Folder. Is there any way I can remove this? I don't want it to be seen.

thanks to those who can solve this problem (thanks to you also!!!)

[kaka189]

Nice Trick.....i Have A Doubt.what Does {21ec.......} Mean?plz Explain.

[luckymurari]

to sohny....actually what we are changing here is just changing the extension of the filefolder...so u will always see it when u type dir cmd...i dont thing ne1 can solve this

[amol_sm]

It is better than tool option

[Stephanatic]

Here is an easy way to protect ur secret folder... Works both on 98 & XP... All that u need is Command Prompt.

Let the folder to protect be D:\My Files\Secret. The folder Secret is to be protected...

NB:- The symbol '<' indicates Enter
Steps
1. Go to Command Prompt (Go to Run->Type cmd)
2. Now type the foll command:-

Code:
>d: <(the drive where ur folder is...)
>cd D:\My Files <(just copy and paste it in Cmmand Prompt Window; that is easy when the path is long...)

NOW THE IMPORTANT COMMAND
>ren secret secret.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} <
NB:- U can also rename the folder directly from the Explorer also...

Done! Now go and open the folder thro Explorer and see what happened!!

To unprotect, just reverse the command:-

Code:
>ren secret.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} secret <
NB:-This cannot be done from Explorer!
How is that??

There are other ways also for hiding files from windows Data Hiding Tactics for Windows and Unix File Systems

Or you can hide files within data streams in other files How to hide files on Windows « Brownian Motion

[Rasdasa]

well both the links u have mentioned are extremely good... no doubt about that .. but is there ne easier way of doing it.
i mean hiding in the system protected files will it work...... ?How to hide files on Windows « Brownian Motion

well that is good only for ntfs file system wat about fat32 ....? it seems unlikely that the method would work out...

[solvent]

I have an easiest way to hide and protect the files or folders.
By using ATTRIB command , you can protect your files or folders from other users.
Consider you have a folder named "personal" in D:\
To hide that folder, follow these steps:-
1. Go to Run
2. Type Cmd
3. Type ATTRIB +r +a +s +h D:\personal
then your personal folder will be hided when u go check in D drive.
no one can view your folder.