Hide Files and Folders Without Any Software

Hello friends, as you know in todays world privacy is important and when it comes to laptops and PCs no one will compromise with this fact.Privacy is very important weather it be your projects,files important data or videos or other things.Today i am gonna show you all how to hide folders,files and other data in windows 7 without usnig any software.

In internet there are dozens of Software to hide files and folder but no need of softwares in Windows 7

Yes with windows 7 you can by default hide your impotant files and folders

Ok,lets start this.

First go to control pannel and click Folder Options

On clicking Folder optins Another window will open With three tabs namely

  1.General
  2.View
  3.Search

Go to view tab

Then expand Files and Folders > Hidden Files and Folders

 and click on "Dont't show hidden files and folders or drives"

Now click Apply and Ok


Now Go to the Folder you want to hide and Right click on it and go to its properties and go to general tab

Click on Hidden in Attributes and click ok

Your folder will be gone and Hidden

To Again Access the folder go to control pannel>folder option>Files and Folders>Hidden Files and Folders

And Click On " Show Hidden files,folders and Drives " and press Ok

You will access the hidden folder in the same location where you have hide the folder.

You can hide any music,video files or any picture by this way.

Make folder Invisible

In this method there is no need to make folder option show or do not show. Here the point is tomake the folder invisible to others so that no one can access to the folder.the disadvantage of this process is
 anyone can still access the folder, given they find it. For example clicking [CTRL] + [A] will select and highlight all files and folders, including invisible ones.

This method reqires two things.First remove the folder name and second make the folder icon transparent.

To remove the folder name

 

Select the folder and press F2

Now holding the ALT key type the number on the Num pad 0160

Hit Enter and the folder name should be gone.

To make the folder transparent

Right click on the folder and go to its properties

 Switch to the > Customize tab and click the > Change Icon… button.

 Several blank icons can be found in the default Windows 7 icon collection. Find one, select it and click > OK.





you can also download many free softwares from the internet which can be used to hide files and folders like My Lockbox but if  someone saw in your PC that you have such software he will be sure that you have some important files and folders hidden in your PC.

Enjoy!

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