How to hide a folder

People with computers may have their own privacy, some children want to hide some files do not want to let the family see, some companies do not want to let colleagues know confidential data, have their own private things, usually, we all want to find a folder to hide, only to see for themselves, then how to achieve it, very simple method.

　　How to hide a folder

1, hidden folder is very simple, your own files are placed in a folder, right click on this folder, select "Hide options."

2, the second step, double-click My Computer, or open Explorer, Find Tools folder Options

Find "View", Look for "hidden files and Folders" in the options below, and select "Do not show hidden files, folders, or drives" so that your folders are hidden.

However, this method can only be effective for ordinary rookie-level players, Master Basic will find your hidden files and folders. However, there is a good way to put it in the privacy of some, and it is best not to be deleted folder, lest one day above the folder was unfortunately deleted.

　　How to display a hidden folder

After saying how to hide a folder, soon we have another problem, how to display the files or folders that have been hidden? Smart you probably already know the answer:

Just as opposed to step 2nd, locate the Explorer Tools folder Options view, locate the hidden files and folders item, and set it as "Show hidden files, folders, and drives."

　　Advanced Hidden Folder method

The image above is the real hidden, sometimes inconvenient, we actually have a better way to solve this problem.

If you want to hide the folder is not too big (if too big, you can store files in less than a large number of folders, you can use WinRAR compression tools such as software, the folder compression, and then the compressed file renamed, will be later suffix. rar modified into a file, such as film file format. mov or. mpg or. RMVB, if you are in the company, you may as well modify into a company's common file format, so that neither arouse the attention of everyone, but also reached the purpose of hiding files, the so-called big faint in the city, the more accustomed to the file format the more hidden the best.

To achieve this may have a problem, is that some computers do not display the file name extension by default, you may wish to follow the following steps to find:

You can open "explorer" and find Tools Folder Options "View" in turn. Look for "Hide extensions for known file types" in the following options (just below the "hidden files and Folders" Item above, you can take a look at the third picture above) to cancel the previous check. You can see the file extension.

On the contrary, if you want to release it again, you need to modify the suffix to. rar and then unzip it, remember to hide the files and data, and then delete the uncompressed folders.

Does the hidden folder that I said today help you? I hope you have a little surprise for reading this page. If you feel that the top of the hidden is not complete, on the basis of changing the extension and then look through the copy command to achieve the text of the file, I believe you are more rewarding.

In fact, you can use your brain to extend the above, a lot of hidden methods waiting for you to think, no longer find other ways, that is, the above introduced can be derived from a variety of.