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Make A Super Hidden Folder Print
Written by windowsxp550   
Saturday, 04 November 2006
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Image You probably already know how to create just a plain hidden folder. It is super easy, you just right click on the folder and select Hidden then click Apply. The problem is that anyone with access to the computer can easily turn on the Show Hidden Files and Folders and then can easily see the folder you created. Well here is a trick that will get around this problem and create a invisible folder that has no text and no icon. td

Please note: Once you create a Super Hidden folder that it will be up to you to remember where you put it. I suggest writing down the location in case you should ever forget about where this folder is.





Right Click on the folder you want hidden, then select Properties

“Right-Click_and_select_properties”

Click on the Customize Tab (Note this procedure also works on any icon, some icons do not let you Customize. So, if you do not see a Customize tab, then you will have to create a new folder and move the icon that you are trying to make hidden into the newly created folder. Then you will make the folder Super Hidden)

“Click_On_the_customize_tab”

Click On the Change Icon button

“Click_on_the_change_icon_button”

The Change Icon box will pop up with the default Windows Icons (If it does not, then click on the Browse button and navigate to your WINDOWS\system32 folder and then find and choose SHELL32.dll then click OPEN





”The_Change_Icon_Box”

Then Scroll to the right and look for a blank icon. Select the blank icon then click Ok.

”The_Change_Icon_Box”

Then Click Apply. And you should now have a blank icon with only the text below it, like this:

”Blank_Icon”

Now to get rid of the text, follow this procedure How to Remove the Text From An Icon

The result is a SUPER hidden Folder:

”Blank_Icon”

In the screenshot, I have the view settings on Thumbnails, which puts the grey box around the folder. To remove that box, choose either the Icon, Tiles or List from the View settings

”Choose_Icons_Tiles_or_List”

Comments (10)Add Comment
Just to let you know
written by Lulzmasta, February 22, 2008
These folders are imposable to delete smilies/angry.gif
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written by pddod, January 31, 2008
smilies/shocked.gif smilies/shocked.gif smilies/shocked.gif
hidden
written by behzad, November 13, 2007
but why i can disable hidden button?
Awesome
written by Rajat, August 01, 2007
Hey there
who so ever has researched and got this thing is worthy of appericiation from my side.Thanks there ,it will certainly help .....
wheeh!
written by wheeh!, June 26, 2007
with this trick and the hidden text trick.. it is good in hidding porn files... smilies/grin.gif
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written by Vash, February 22, 2007
CTRL A
more oftern known as select all can view it when highlighted the folder is visible because the character in the name can be selected and has a selection colour, to get round this change the selection colour to white or transparent in apperance and then its basicly IMPOSSIBLE to find...

P.S i already knew about this what i was looking for was a true SUPER-HIDDEN FOLDER, something like System Volume Information is a super-hidden folder this is just a flaw in XP
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written by Nabeshein, February 21, 2007
You can find it if you lose it by right-clicking the start button and choose "explore" to pull up the file tree. Either that, or choose to view by list or details. If you REALLY want to hide files, get a partition manager, make a new small partition in your hard drive, add your files, hide and mark the partition as inactive (from inside the manager), and you can even mark the folder as hidden beforehand if you're really anal about hiding it.
Exellent
written by PiDGiT, February 15, 2007
Great man. Great job. smilies/wink.gif
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written by null, November 11, 2006
Your can still search for it; or if you switch to detailed-view of the folder where the "super secret"-folder resided, you can see a hole in the list
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written by null, November 08, 2006
worked great! Now how do i find if it gets lost?

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