Most convenient way to secure personal files and folders is to hiding them. If you are interested in protecting your documents and folders, Hiding Folder is just an easy and effective method without using any types of third party application!
Hide folders from desktop
Steps you have to perform
1. Create a folder on desktop. Name it with anything you!
2. Right click on folder->Select Properties->Click on Customize tab->Select Change Icon
3. Select blank icon as shown below! Now Select Ok-Apply-Ok....!
4. To hide name of the older for security purpose, right click on folder->Select Rename!
5. Now while renaming press Ctrl from keyboard & type 255 i.e CTRL+255 , Do not release CTRL while typing 255. After that, release CTRL! Now you can see name of folder is hidden!
As The Folder Is Completely Hidden,To Find it Press CTRL+A Which Will Select All Icons From Desktop,Then You Will Get Selected Icon As Shown Above Image. You Can Add Any Important Contents To This Folder. Now It Is Not Directly Visible For Users Other Than You.
3. Select blank icon as shown below! Now Select Ok-Apply-Ok....!
5. Now while renaming press Ctrl from keyboard & type 255 i.e CTRL+255 , Do not release CTRL while typing 255. After that, release CTRL! Now you can see name of folder is hidden!
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Thank you for your tricks!
ReplyDeleteBut this trick will only work with windows Vista I suppose. Because using CTRL+255 will not work. To hide the name of a folder in Win7 u have to use ALT instead of CTRL. Thats it!
Nice share btw!
Hey thanks for informing.
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