How to Hide - Un-Hide Folder Or Files on Your Computer

How to Hide - Un-Hide Folder Or Files on Your Computer

Everybody can have certain files and folders to keep private. One of the way to keep your files private is by hiding your files and folders on your computer. You can hide private files and folder to make them invisible to the other users of the computer. You can can hide videos,music, and other files or folders.

How to hide a file or a folder on their computer is explained briefly in quick little tips given below and given below procedure does not require downloading any other 3rd party software utility.

First of all, select the folder which you want to hide, go to the properties option of the folder and just mark on hidden and apply the changes, now your folder will be invisible it will not be seen by other users your folder will be protected. To un-hide that folder again you have to change the settings in windows explorer or in control panel folder options.

To un-hide your folder go to windows explorer tools and then click on folder options then a small window will be displayed showing its contents you have to select view and under that 'show hidden files and folders' and click OK to save the changes and this option will view all the hidden files on your computer and to hide your folder again you have to again go to windows explorer tools and then click on folder options the a small window will appear select view and under that 'dont show hidden files and folder' and click OK to apply the changes, this will again hide your folder.

One disadvantage of hiding folder or file is that any one can change the settings of the folder option and can view your files of your folder. Hiding a file or folder becomes very essential when you use a computer that others use too.

Advantage of this procedure is that, it is free to use and is a part of the windows operating system and work on Windows XP, Windows Vista and even Windows 7.