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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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In windows, let us assume that you want to rename a all .txt files to .rtf files. You can easily rename all files with the following command

ren *.txt *.rtf

The above command will covert all .txt files into .rtf files. With the help of this, you can easily rename a set of files to another extension. This works for all file extensions in Windows.