Hide Folder in Windows – New Trick

Admin January 27, 2009 5

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On your computer, you can hide your folders from the common view without any particular software utilities. The tips today am sharing with you is new and different and will make sure the folder does not even show up in Windows search. Suppose you want to hide a folder named Technubuzznet which is in located on the hard drive D: of your computer

Hide Folder in Windows - New Trick

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Go to the command prompt:

Start —> Run —> cmd –> D:

After changing the location from default hard drive C: to D:, type the following command to change the folder attributes to hide it.

D:/>attrib +h +s +r technobuzznet

To make the folder visible, the attributes can be altered back. Type

D:/>attrib -h -s -r technobuzznet

When folder is hidden with this trick, the folder can be found even if you make advanced searches or even change the folders menu options to show all hidden files.

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5 Comments »

Joy January 29, 2009 at 9:30 am -

hi its kewl… good trick!!!
Raj January 29, 2009 at 9:40 am -

Ya Joy, this one is the newest trick
slayerz July 23, 2009 at 3:14 pm -

It’s a good trick for normal users, but it’s easily traceable by using cmd.exe

Command like ” dir /a:h ” (without quotes) will reveal all super hidden file/folder
cj October 25, 2009 at 10:09 pm -

@slayerz
Thnx for that cmd.exe line, its awesome… im kninda a newd at dis stuff
sonty February 13, 2010 at 11:01 am -

Hey don’t understand it properly because it’s not working in my pc.
please give some to me.