Almost anyone knows how to make a "hidden" folder in Windows, merely then again well-nigh anyone knows how to make explorer show hidden folders. Permit'due south take a expect at how to make a folder so hidden, only you will know its there.

Anyone that has used Windows for a while knows that they tin right-click on a file or folder and edit its backdrop, more than then its attributes to make it a so called "subconscious" file or binder. The problem is that just as many people know y'all can bear witness files and folders that have the "subconscious" attribute by only changing a radio push under the binder view options. The easiest way to make a real subconscious file or binder is to mark it equally an important operating organization file, that way Windows won't brandish it even if explorer is ready to display subconscious files and folders.

To do this nosotros need to launch a command prompt, and then press the Win + R cardinal combination and type cmd then hit the enter button.

Now we are going to use the attrib command, so go alee and type a command similar to the following (you'll demand to substitute the path to your own folder hither).

attrib +southward +h "C:\Users\Taylor Gibb\Desktop\Top Surreptitious"

You will need to replace the stuff in quotes to an accented path of a folder or file on your system  that you desire to make hidden.

At present if I go await for the Meridian Secret binder on my Desktop information technology is gone, even with explorer set to show hidden files and folders.

To unhide the file or folder you lot can run the same command, except this time apply "-" instead of the "+" signs.

attrib -s -h "C:\Users\Taylor Gibb\Desktop\Top Secret"

Like magic, my binder appeared over again.

Warning

While this method will catch 99 percent of people, if I knew for a fact that there was a hidden folder on a organisation that I was looking for there are many ways that volition expose the folder. The easiest would be to make explorer testify operating organisation files, which tin be washed through the aforementioned interface every bit showing hidden files.

Although any ordinary user who un-checks the box will most probably exist scared off by the warning message that appears.

Hope this was informative, now go hide all your things.

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