First of all, if you have a folder you want to hide, don’t create the folder in some obvious place such as My Documents, instead put it in a location that someone would typically not look into. For example, create a new folder under C:\Program Files. Creating a folder there doesn’t hurt anything at all and not many people go browsing through their anyway since it’s mostly just system installation files.
Now that you have your folder created in a strange location and your files stored in that folder, we can make it hidden. Setting a folder to Hidden in Windows XP is simply changing one of the properties of the folder, i.e. 0 means not hidden and 1 means hidden. Windows Explorer reads this property and appropriately shows or hides the folder. However, there is an option in Windows Explorer called “Show hidden files and folders” that will display all folders no matter what the hidden property value is set to.
We need to change that setting so that hidden files and folders are not to be shown. In order to do this, click on My Computer from your desktop and from the menu click on Tools and then Folder Options.
Click on the View tab and under the Hidden Files and Folders section, choose the radio button that says “Do not show hidden files and folders”.
In order to save a file to a hidden folder, all you need to do is specify the entire path in the File Name box. Fox example, if you’re saving a Word document, you could save the files to the hidden folder by typing in C:\Program Files\Secret\filename.doc and click Save.
using cmd prmpt is a better idea
ReplyDeleteSteps
1.Make a folder in any drive.
2.Name it as the password u wanna keep and put all ur private files in this folder.
3.Now open cmd prmpt by typing cmd in run.
4.Reach the drive where u made ur folder n type attrib<>+s<>+h<> <>.
Syntax:
I made a folder in d drive named private
Start Menu>>Run>>TYPE cmd>>press enter key
Commands in sequence
d:
attrib +s +h private
exit.
To open u just need to go the drive u kept ur private folder n type \<> in the address bar