How to hide a folder in Windows 7. How to hide a folder or file in Windows. Thank you for your attention

This method is effective, but raises questions and mistrust. Today we’ll look at the easiest way to hide a folder in Windows. Less effective, but no one sees it and doesn’t ask stupid questions “what’s in it.”

If you have top secret information on which the safety of humanity depends, use 2 methods at once. This is of course a joke, let's get started.

A quick way to hide a folder

Move porn and nude photos the desired folder with secret documents to any other folder on your hard drive, then right-click on it and select “properties”.

In the top menu you need to select “General”. Check the box at the very bottom where the attributes and the word “hidden” are. Click ok and you can check. Most likely the folder is already hidden, but not always. There is a possibility that after such a procedure it will become a little grayer and that’s it.

To completely hide the “gray folder”, do the following: Open the Start menu, go to the Control Panel, then find “Folder Options” and you need to switch to the “View” tab.

Scroll the slider all the way down to the Hidden Files and Folders section. As shown in the screenshot above, you need to switch the lever to “do not show hidden files, folders and drives”. Congratulations, you did it. No one will find hidden “documents” in your Windows anymore).

How to make a hidden folder visible

Well done, you decided not to suffer by doing all the above in order to see the hidden folder again. You would be enough for a couple of times, no more, and you wouldn’t want to eat anything else. Of course, if you like perversions, you can open it in the same way as you hid it, but for the rest I offer another interesting way.

Download Total Commander and open it. Next, you need to open the “view” tab in the menu, then “advanced settings” and turn on “Show hidden files and folders”. That's all! Now, when you need to see a hidden folder, open it through the Total Commander program.

Oh yes, I completely forgot when I wrote this article, you can hide a folder in any Windows through the properties in the program mentioned above. Well, this is so, it might come in handy.

How to hide a folder: video

According to the old tradition, for those who do not understand something, I am attaching video instructions from YouTube.

Users of Windows 7 and other OS editions from Microsoft can set the attributes of any folder, except for some system ones.

What is an attribute

An attribute is metadata describing additional parameters of a file/directory. Compared to other metadata related to folders, the concept of “attribute” does not include the date of creation and modification of the directory, or access rights to it.

For the average user, the presence of such metadata means that he will be able to make directories in Windows invisible in Explorer and file managers, archive and index files located in the directory, as well as compress data to save disk space and encrypt the contents of the directory. From the entire list, we are interested in the ability to hide a folder.

How to assign attributes

In any Windows released in the last 15 years, creating hidden directories is extremely easy, so any user can handle the task. Let's look at how this is done, in several ways.

Using the proposed method to hide confidential data is unreliable: any user will be able to detect hidden folders and the information they contain. Therefore, the method can only be used to temporarily hide data from users who are less knowledgeable about the intricacies of the Windows file system, for example, very young users.

• Launch Explorer and open the folder or drive where the target directory (which we want to hide) is located.
• Using the context menu or the “Alt+Tab” combination, call up its context menu.

• In the window that opens, on the first tab “General”, find the “Attributes” field located at the bottom and check the box next to “Hidden”.

• Click “Apply”.
• When a window appears to confirm the change of attributes, select a satisfying condition and click “OK”.

• We go back to the folder where our hidden object is located, or update the contents of the explorer by clicking F5.

Folders are painted in a less bright color. This symbolizes that everything worked out.

Activate the option to not display hidden directories

To ensure that directories assigned the “Hidden” attribute are not visible in Windows Explorer, you must disable the option to show hidden objects.

• Call up the Explorer window by going to any directory, disk, or launching “My Computer”.
• Call the main menu item called “Arrange”.

If it is not there, press the hardware “Alt” key.

• Activate the “View” tab and move down the list of additional parameters.
• Move the checkbox to the “Do not show...” position so that hidden directories become invisible to the user.

To make Windows start visualizing objects with the “Hidden” attribute again, move the switch to “Show...”.

• Save the new settings for displaying hidden objects by clicking “Apply”.
• We get acquainted with the information in the warning dialog and take note of the information provided.

• Close the settings window.

Working with hidden directories in Total Commander

When using a file manager on a computer as an alternative to a primitive explorer, Total Commander and other analogues also allow you to change the attributes of directories and files located in them.

• Move the cursor to the required directory or select it.
• Call the dialog for changing object attributes in Total Commader.
• Check the “h Hidden” option.

• Click "OK". The catalog display color has changed.

To enable the option of not displaying hidden objects, call “Settings”, located in the “Configuration” item of the main menu.

On the “Panel Contents” tab, deactivate the “Show hidden files” option and save the new configuration.

We will not consider working with attributes via the command line due to the fact that this method of hiding folders will seem difficult to the vast majority of beginners.

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Sometimes there is a need to protect personal files or folders. This is especially true if more than one person is working with the computer. One solution is hiding. Of course, it will not help in the case of an experienced user. But it will hide information from unsuspecting eyes.

How to hide/show files and folders on a Windows 7 computer

Standard method

To hide a file or folder, you need to go through two steps:

Disable visibility of hidden folders

If the “Do not show...” option is set in the settings, then hidden files and folders will still be displayed, with the only difference being that the label for such objects is dimmer compared to a regular element.

Changing folder/file settings

After these steps, the folder or files will become hidden and will not be displayed.

Enable visibility and view

To show hidden items, you need to go to the folder settings and check the box next to “Show hidden files, folders and drives”. And for a specific object to stop being invisible, you need to uncheck the “Hidden” option.

How to make a folder invisible - video

Via Total Commander

This method is related to the previous one in that in “Folder Options” there should also be a checkmark next to the item “Do not show hidden files, folders and drives”.

How to view files and make them open

To show hidden files and folders, press Ctrl + H.

To make documents visible again, you need to use the Alt + A combination and uncheck the “Hidden” checkbox.

Via Free Hide Folder

If you want to be sure that no one can see hidden information, you can use the Free Hide Folder program, which requires setting a password.

Free Hide Folder does not hide individual files. Available for free download on the Internet.

1. When you launch the program for the first time, a window will appear in which you need to enter and confirm a password. By the way, you will also need it when uninstalling the program.
2. The next window will ask you to enter a registration code, but this is not a requirement. To continue working, you need to select Skip.
3. Then click on the Add icon and select the folder that you want to hide.
4. After the folder is selected, a message will appear indicating that it is advisable to make a Backup. It is advisable to follow the advice.
   

   Backup saves information about the program. If the latter is deleted, then after re-installation, access to hidden folders will be restored.

In addition to Add, the general window has buttons for:

How to find hidden information and transfer it to a flash drive

Free Hide Folder hides folders so that they cannot be found using search. The only way is to open the program and select the Unhide tool. Another special feature is that it does not hide documents located on removable disks.

Since Windows search cannot detect documents hidden using Free Hide Folder, copying cannot be used. Thus, invisible folders cannot be transferred to removable drives.

Using an image and an archiver

For this method you will need a folder with files, any image and the WinRAR archiver. The program is available for free download on the official website. In this case, the processor bit capacity must be taken into account. To find out, you need:

You can take any image, there are no restrictions.

1. Add the desired folder to the archive.
2. Place the archive and the image in one folder, preferably located in the root of the disk.
3. Using the Win + R combination, launch the Run tool, enter cmd in the line and click OK.
4. In the command line, go to the folder where the archive and image are located. To do this, enter the cd command and the address. In this case it is cd c:\.
5. Then press Enter.
6. Now in the line you need to write the names of the image, archive and new file. Also, extensions must be specified in all three positions. In this case it turns out: COPY /B Image.jpg + FolderWithFiles.rar ImageWithArchive.jpg.
7. Press Enter. If everything was written correctly, a message will appear on the command line indicating that the files were copied.

If you now open the created file, only the image that was taken as a basis will open.

The original files can be deleted.

How to view hidden files

To be able to view files hidden in the image, you need to open the illustration itself using WinRAR.

But the archiver must first be added to the list of programs that can open images:

1. In the “Open with” menu, click on “Select program”.
2. Click on “Browse” and in the window that opens, find the folder with the archiver.
3. Open the folder and select the program launch shortcut.
4. Next, WinRAR will appear in the list of programs that can open the image. You also need to uncheck the “Use the selected program for all files of this type” option. Otherwise, all images will be opened using the archiver.

When the user opens the image using the archiver, it will be visible that there is a folder inside.

But don't hide too much information in one file. If it takes up tens of megabytes, even an inexperienced user will become suspicious.

Possible mistakes

How to enable the “Show hidden files and folders” option

Sometimes a situation occurs that the user activates the “Show hidden files and folders” option, but the switch automatically switches to the “Do not show hidden files and folders” position. In this case you need:

Otherwise, the parameter must be created. To do this, right-click on a free area of ​​the window, select “New”, then “DWORD Value”. Call it CheckedValue and give the value 1.

1. Go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced.
2. Find the Hidden parameter (with value 0), type REG_SZ, in the list and delete it.
3. If the list contains a Hidden parameter, type REG_DWORD, then change its value to 1. Otherwise, the parameter must be created.
4. Find the SuperHidden parameter, type REG_DWORD, in the list and change its value to 1.
5. Press "F5" to refresh the editor window and close it.

What to do if Folder Options is missing

This usually means that viruses have entered the system. Perhaps the antivirus simply failed to identify and remove malware. And so that the user cannot visually detect them, the authors of such applications use the “Hidden” or “System” attributes. In addition, the “Folder Options” menu item is removed.

Even if the malware is removed, the antivirus will not be able to restore this item. This will need to be done manually:

The Registry Editor may not have been blocked after a virus attack. In this case, you can use it:

1. Using Win + R, launch the Run tool, type regedit in the line and click OK.
2. Go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer.

In the right part of the window, find the NoFolderOptions parameter, type REG_DWORD. Double-click LMB to open it and set the value to 0.

Hiding files and folders is a quick and easy way to protect your personal information. Of course, the first two are less reliable, and sophisticated users may accidentally or intentionally discover the secret. But FHF and the archiver will hide personal data even from experienced eyes.

Privacy is constantly under threat, especially when it comes to a computer, and the danger is especially strong when you have to share a PC with other family members or friends. Perhaps you have files that you don't want to show to others and prefer to keep them in a hidden place. This guide will look at three ways to quickly and easily hide folders in Windows 7 and Windows 8.

It's worth noting that none of these solutions will allow you to hide your folders from an experienced user. For truly important and secret information, I would recommend more advanced solutions that not only hide the data, but also encrypt it - even an archive with a password to open it can be more secure than hidden Windows folders.

A much more convenient way to hide folders in Windows is to use a special program called Free Hide Folder, which you can download for free here: http://www.cleanersoft.com/hidefolder/free_hide_folder.htm. Do not confuse this program with another product - Hide Folders, which also allows you to hide folders, but is not free.

After downloading, simply installing and launching the program, you will be asked to enter a password and confirm it. The next window will ask you to enter an optional registration code (the program is free and you can also get a key for free), you can skip this step by clicking “Skip”.

Now, to hide a folder, click the Add button in the main program window and specify the path to your secret folder. A warning will appear that, just in case, you should click the Backup button, which will save the backup information of the program in case it is accidentally deleted, so that after re-installation you can access the hidden folder. Click OK. The folder will disappear.

Now, the folder hidden using Free Hide Folder is not visible anywhere in Windows - it cannot be found through search and the only way to access it is to run the Free Hide Folder program again, enter the password, select the folder you want to show and click "Unhide" causing the hidden folder to appear in its original location. The method is much more effective, the only thing is that you should save the backup data that the program asks for so that if it is accidentally deleted, you can again gain access to hidden files.

Cool way to hide a folder in Windows

And now I’ll tell you about another, quite interesting way to hide the Windows folder in any picture. Let's say you have a folder with files that are important to you and a photo of a cat.

Do the following:

• Zip the entire folder with your files into a zip or rar archive.
• Place the picture with the cat and the created archive in one folder, preferably closer to the root of the disk. In my case - C:\remontka\
• Press Win + R, enter cmd and press Enter.
• On the command line, navigate to the folder where the archive and photo are stored using the cd command, for example: cd C:\remontka\
• Enter the following command (the file names are taken from my example, the first file is an image of a cat, the second is the archive in which the folder is located, the third is a new image file) COPY /Bkotik.jpg +secret-files.rarsecret-image.jpg
• After the command is executed, try to open the created secret-image.jpg file - the same cat will open as in the first image. However, if we open the same file through an archiver, or rename it to rar or zip, then when we open it we will see our secret files.

Hidden folder in the picture

Here is an interesting way that allows you to hide a folder in an image, while the photo for those who don’t know will be an ordinary photo, and you can extract the necessary files from it.

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Hello, friends!
How to hide a folder in Windows 7? Why do I need this, you ask? I don't have any secrets.

Perhaps, but nevertheless, knowing how to do this may be useful to you in the future. In this instruction we will look at the simplest method without using additional software.

To hide a folder, we do not need to install additional programs; standard Windows operating system tools are sufficient.

In Windows 7, there is the concept of a “file and folder attribute”. A folder attribute is an additional property of a folder. To hide a folder, we will change its attribute.

By the way, you can not only hide a folder, but also put a password on it. I described how to do this in the article “Putting a password on the folder. Dirlock program. You can read this article. In addition, you can hide folders using personal information software.

How to change a folder attribute?

To change the attribute, you need to select this folder > right-click on it and select the item at the very bottom properties. The → “Folder Properties” window will appear.

On the “General” tab, change the attribute; Check the “hidden” box. The folder magically disappears!

Or it will not disappear, but will become transparent, if in the “Folder Option” on the “View” tab it is specified: “show hidden files and folders”. Now you should go to: Start > Control Panel > Folder Options > View tab.

We are interested in the “Hidden files and folders” section. If the folder itself has the “hide” attribute, and the folder option > “do not show hidden folders”, then your folder will become invisible.

If you want to make the folder visible again, then select “show hidden files and folders” and return to your folder, which will become transparent. Right-click > select properties, and remove the “hide” attribute → the folder is visible again. That's all, don't forget to subscribe. See you in new articles!