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Hide Folder in Windows – New Trick

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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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4 Responses to “Hide Folder in Windows – New Trick”

  1. Joy on January 29th, 2009 9:30 am

    hi its kewl… good trick!!!

  2. Raj on January 29th, 2009 9:40 am

    Ya Joy, this one is the newest trick

  3. slayerz on July 23rd, 2009 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

  4. cj on October 25th, 2009 10:09 pm

    @slayerz
    Thnx for that cmd.exe line, its awesome… im kninda a newd at dis stuff

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