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How to hide a file in Windows?

December 16th, 2008 1 comment
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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.

Related:How to hide a file in an image?

How to hide a file in an image?

August 22nd, 2007 5 comments
How to hide a file in an image?

Save the above image and open this. This will open as an image by default. But if you open with winrar you will get a hidden file.

How to do this?

  1. Select any image. (Find.jpg)
  2. Place all your files in a folder. (Here I am creating a folder VijayForVictory)
  3. Add this to archive (zip/rar). (VijayForVictory.zip)
  4. Place your image and the zip file under a folder.
  5. Open Windows console (Start > Run > cmd)
  6. Go to the folder where we placed the image and the zip file.
  7. Type the following

copy /b Find.jpg + VijayForVictory.zip VijayForVictory_Hidden.jpg

How tohide a file in an image?