How to hide a file in Windows?

December 16th, 2008 Leave a comment Go to comments

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How to hid a file? is always an interesting question asked by everyone.

There are N number of ways to hide a file. This one is a traditional way to hide a file in windows.

In this trick, we are going to use notepad to hide a file.

1. Get into Windows console using “Start Windows button -> Run -> cmd”
2. Go to your desired directory where you want to hide your file.
3. Type the following given in double-quotes
“notepad file.txt:hiddenfile.txt”
4. The above command will launch notepad with an alert dialog to create a file. Click “Yes” on this to proceed.
5. That’s all you are done.

What you have done is, you just created two files.

  • file.txt – You can view this file in your directory
  • file.txt:hiddenfile.txt – Hidden file

You can edit the hidden file with the following command given within double-quotes.

“notepad file.txt:hiddenfile.txt”

Now you can use this file keep your important secrets.

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  1. Manisha
    May 26th, 2011 at 10:30 | #1
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    Works great. Only thing is you need to remember the name of the file. I fould free hide folder which hides folders with a password protection. So no peeping tom can unhide the files as well.
    http://www.skipser.toolsbysk.com/p/2/p/how-to-really-hide-files-in-windows.html

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