Today tip is very helpful to hide and secure your personal data from
other users, particularly on home computer. Just imagine if multiple
users are using the same computer at home or in office environment then
there is no any 100% secure method to protect your personal files. You
may be used any third party tools to protect your folders but it is not
recommended by Microsoft to use such kinds of tools. Using built-in
windows (XP, 2003, Vista) Attrib commands option, you can change the
attributes of a folder (Read only, Hidden and System attributes) and
safe your data.
Follow the given steps to edit the folders
attributes to secure your data:
To enable this feature, you will need to be
logged into your computer with administrative rights.
Now create a folder that you want to hide on any computer drive. (For
example, you have created a folder on D drive with the name Data)
First click on Start button and type CMD in
Run box then press Ok button to display the windows command prompt.
Now type the command "attrib +s +h D:\Data" without quotation marks and
press Enter button to execute it.
This command will hide
your "Data" folder from D drive and now you can verify it.
Any one cannot unhide
this folder using windows "Show hidden files and folders" option also.
When you want to unhide
this folder, again open command prompt and type the command "attrib -s
-h D:\Data" and press Enter button. If you want to hide files then
simply move all these files to this "Data" folder.
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