Creating An Invisible Folder

vrock

CREATING AN INVISIBLE FOLDER... Wink

1)Right Click on the desktop.Make a new folder
2)Now rename the folder with a space(U have to hold ALT key and type 0160).
3)Now u have a folder with out a name.
4)Right click on the folder>properties>customize. Click on change icon.
5)Scroll a bit, u should find some empty spaces, Click on any one of them.click ok

These are all reserve words for Windows and Dos only..
You can create the folder with these names in Linux , Unix but not in windows

CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.

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orcaz

Actually u can easily hide your folders by right clicking on the folder and ticking the hidden attribute.

MrBlueSky

OS Master

But, if you go into Windows Explorer, navigate to the main folder where the invisible folder is, and sort by some attribute (name, data, etc.), you should find an empty space, which is the invisible folder. That should look suspicious.

James007

Moved to Tutorials.

endless

well, lucky i found this tutorial.
it's really helpful because i always forget password, now i made and invisible notepad file with it. and hidden it in the top corner.

really useful!

armaan143

u can also use "255" when pressing ALT button
this works same

firefox-cafe

u can make it as a system file atribute so therefore u can see any