Showing posts with label Hiding Files. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hiding Files. Show all posts

Friday, March 6, 2015

Hiding Files in Windows using Command Prompt

People normally prefer to hide the private and important data in their PC in order to keep it away from the people who have access to that system.Windows provides an option where you can change the file type into hidden select "don't show hidden file".The main draw back of this feature is anybody can change the option from "Don't Show hidden file" from "Show hidden file".

There is one more method which is very secured in  windows to hide files,That is using command prompt. Command prompt provides acommand called "attrib" using which one can hide and unhide the files.

 Here is a step by step information about how to hide/unhide files using "attrib" command.

Hiding:
Step 1: