Tuesday, December 23, 2008

SECURE FILES AND FOLDERS IN WINDOWS XP

SECURE FILES AND FOLDERS IN WINDOWS XP : :

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)
CAREFUL!

Just Follow These Steps:

  • 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.
  • command will hide your "Data" folder from D drive and now you can verify it.
  • one cannot unhide this folder using windows "Show hidden files and folders" option also.
  • 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 some files then simply move all these files to this "Data" folder.

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