If You Have Some Private Files

Hello everyone ,

Here in this post I will show you how to hide your private files and folders

If you have some private files and want to prevent others from seeing them you can follow these steps to hide these private files

First Step

Create New Folder any where and rename it hold Alt key and press 255

Now you will notice the folder has no name
Second Step
Now right click this folder and select Properties then Customise then change icon and select invisiable icon for this folder you will find 4 empty area icons all are fine
Third Step
Now move all your private files to a Folder and Put this Folder in the invisiable folder you just created . That's right folder inside the invisiable Folder .. this way windows will not catch thumbnail and show it in Thumbnail Preview
Forth Step
Right click your folder again and mark Hidden

For more secured folder you can choose Do not show hidden files from Tools -- > folder Options --- > View

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Another way

For text files like word spreadsheet excel or just text use this way
rename your file like yourfile.txt to yourfile.zip
Now whenever any one click this file or even rightclick and select extract command he will get an error message from winzip - or any other software you use for dealing with zip files -
You can apply the first way from step one to step four on this fake zip file too to make sure it will not be even noticed

Thank You

 

 

 

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This is a good method, im a System administrator, so am always having to look out for security holes and hackers

Also Encripting the files inside the folder is a useful technique
maybe Encripting the folder itself, and taking away permissions to it

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AFAIK any security system can be broken if one really needs to get your files. Your system in particular does not guarantee any security if a person knows where to look, or stumbles onto the data by accident. Your measures assume that the person trying to open the files does not know how to handle them, and as history of digital security has shown, any "security-through-obscurity" concept (employed by many companies unfortunately) is bound to fail sooner or later.

Encrypting sensitive information with a good 10+ signs alpha-numerical password and storing them away on a tiny pendrive you're always carrying with yourself is never a bad idea, and is much more effective than it seems. With prices of flash memories being so low these days and linux micro-distributions available (Puppy-linux for example), you can have a fully-functional OS, with all your sensitive files, never leaving your pocket.

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The best way to hide your private files is to not keep them on machines that aren't yours.

If you have administrator level access to your machine, install TrueCrypt or FreeOTFE. These free programs install a driver that allows you to create a virtual "drive" that is mapped to a file on the hard disk, or a partition if you want. Since it happens in kernel space, programs don't care that they files are actually encrypted on the disk; they're decrypted by the virtual disk driver on a chunk-by-chunk basis as the bytes are requested by the program using the encrypted files.

For instance, I have a 1GB TrueCrypt container on my work machine that I keep my firefox and gaim profiles in. I don't need my sysadmin seeing what sites I go to and who I chat with online.

If you don't, just keep your private files on a USB key in your pocket.

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Haha wow, I think you guys took this way more seriously then he intended... I got the feeling he was just thinking like you don't want your mom finding your porn or something haha and you guys go all out with encryption methods and such heh.

I just found that humorous... carry on.

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That's a great way to do this that I had never thought of.

As ethergeek said, because USB sticks are so readily available, they are another great option. Cheap and powerful.

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If you're having to hide porn from your mom I think you have bigger issues than computer security

In all seriousness though, if my girlfriend wasn't ok with my porn habits I'd probably use truecrypt to hide it too...

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Hello everyone ,

I agree with you Jeigh
and yes I was thinking of a way to hide some data from brother sister father mother some people like that even if a friend drop by and use your computer while you are in the other room , it is not all porn but some more files too would be better to be hidden from these eyes , think of messenger logs conversation with some people , some thoughts you wish to keep away from them , your inetrenet explorer favorite sites ( you can export them to a file and hide it there using htis way ) , although there are lots of serious ways to encrypt important files but lets just keep it for very very important ones because these ways may take some time to decrypt again and let you use your files again ( some encypted files take about an hour in the complecated CIA/FPI type of encryptions ) .
But using alt way is very simple everyone can do it and still your files are accessable in a mouse click , you do not need to use programs or remember complecated passwords to decrypt or to wait for the decryption process to finish handling your encypted files to use them .

The flash memory stick is a very good idea too
thank you

 

 

 

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I feel I should clarify that I didn't mean to imply hazemmostafa or anyone else would necessarily be trying to hide porn, it was just the first thing that popped into my head haha.

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I understand your comment XD
And I likely would have made a very similar one myself.

But... For something small like that... I usually just store my files deep down in the C: drive and renamed all to numbers or things that are hard to search for.

Since... If someone was really going to use the search function on a computer to find porn or other things that I don't want them to see, they likely wouldn't think to search for things such as "24" or "3".
Although, every one of you now knows where to find it.
Which is fine, I don't even know why I hide my files, I'm the only one to ever touch this computer. It's pretty much completely private as it is.

I'm gonna be sure to remember the invisible icon trick though, just because I can see it definitely coming in handy sometime if I'm on another computer and need to hide something

I'm a bit concerned though... If you had open the window/desktop that the invisible folder was in, even without a name, wouldn't... Say... Ctrl+A highlight it?

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