At some point in time, perhaps on your family computer, or your own computer, you will develop, collect, and store some important personal files on your hard drive that are strictly for your needs and purposes. These digital files may be so important to you, that under no circumstances, should anyone ever be able to access and see them. These files may be so sensitive in nature, that you realize a need to prevent your spouse, kids, friends, or anyone for that matter, from viewing and accessing them. Perhaps, you may even need to hide porn or other explicit files. Just imagine if your spouse, or little ones at home, did a file search for all picture files and movies that were on your computer. LOL. How shameful could that be??? Ok, you get the point. And thus, this question is raised: How do I hide files and folders so that they won’t be discovered?

There are several ways in which you can hide files:
The most common way people do that can put files within a folder and apply the hidden attribute to the folder, but this is the useless way. The files will still show up if a user sets the option “show hidden files and folders” within the folders options. You can bury your files deeply in subdirectories within subdirectories and hope that no one browses using Windows Explorer. You can change the file name and file extension of your file to something unique and strange, so that no one recognizes it, or you can purchase a file hiding software security application such as a folder lock or folder hider with password protection.

Let me show you how I hide my files:

1. Create a “tricky” file in any format .doc, .jpg, .pdf, etc and move the files you want to hide into the same folder.
   Eg. All files copied to D:\hidden
   
2. Highlight the files you want to hide and add to .RAR archive, perhaps set the password at Advance tab if you wish for better encryption
   
3. Hidden.rar file has been created
   
4. Command Prompt > Go to directory folder and type the command

   copy /b trick.doc + hidden.rar example.doc

   

   trick.doc – file to trick people
   hidden.rar – file to hide
   example.doc – file to display as a trick

5. File copied successfully in folder, double click at “example.doc” will show the content in “trick.doc”
6. Right click and choose “open with” option to WinRAR will show everything

Another way to hide a file is simply by concealing it by dumping it into a folder you think no one will ever access. However, you run the risk of it appearing within the results of a Windows Search and having it displayed in the documents list. Another way to hide a file is by renaming it along with its file extension so that no one recognizes it or is able to open it using its standard program. Although this method could possibly work for you, you would have to waste time renaming it and changing it back to the correct extension.
And thus, the following question is raised: What is a quick and sure proof way to hide files in windows so that they won’t appear within Windows Explorer and won’t be displayed in the results of a Windows search? You might to check this out by yourself.

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