How to Make Invisible Password Protected Folder

Submitted by Srikanth on Thursday, 10 December 200930 Comments

Password-protected-folder Do you want to password protect your folder? Do you want to make it invisible so that it remains unnoticed by the normal users? Well here is a way to do that. In this post I will show you how to make a password protected folder in Windows without using any additional software. Here is is step by step procedure to create a password protected folder.

How to create a Password Protected Folder

Step-1: Create a new folder (Right-click -> New -> Folder) and give it any name of your choice. For instance I name it as ABC.

Step-2: Now in this folder place all the important files, documents or any folders that you want to password protect.

Step-3: Now Right-click on this folder (ABC) and select the option Send To -> Compressed (zipped) Folder.

Step-4: Now a new compressed zipped folder gets created next this folder (ABC) with the same name.

Step-5: Double-click on this compressed zipped folder and you should see your original folder (ABC) here.

Step-6: Now goto the File menu and select the option Add a password.

ie: File -> Add a password

Now a small window will pop up and here you can set your desired password. Once the password is set, the folder will ask for the password every time it is opened. Thus you have now created the password protected folder.

How to make it Invisible

Step-1: Now Right-click on this password protected folder and select Properties.

Step-2: At the bottom select the option Hidden and press OK. Now your folder gets invisible (hidden).

Step-3: In order to unhide this folder go to My Computer – >Tools -> Folder options. Switch to View tab, scroll down and under Hidden files and folders you’ll see the following two options

Do not show hidden files and folders
Show hidden files and folders

Now select the second option and press OK. Now the invisible folder becomes visible in it’s location. To access it you need the password. To make it invisible again repeat step -1 through step-3 and select the first option and click OK. Now the folder becomes invisible once again.

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30 Comments »

Azmat said:

hi,
i’ve got a problem thts its not enabling the option of show hidden files and folders, whenever i select it and click ok then when i recheck its deselected again…. is there any virus??

- 11 December 2009 at 9:55 pm

Shyju said:

After giving password, it opens without asking passowrd

- 15 December 2009 at 2:46 pm

rajkumbh said:

So what is the hack in it. It is all telling people about the features of Windows XP

- 18 December 2009 at 9:12 pm

Fenil said:

HI this is really wrkng I like ths THNX keep IT up I like this trck most thnx onece again………………Keep IT up/////////

- 19 December 2009 at 7:39 pm

Amarjit Singh said:

Is there any way to crack this password.

- 21 December 2009 at 3:26 pm

roshan said:

it doesnt work with WINRAR

- 21 December 2009 at 3:44 pm

JED said:

thres no “add a pasword”

How cAN i do that……send 2 (winzip)when i send it become a winrar type…..

ang to be axtracted only….!!

- 25 December 2009 at 5:37 am

JED said:

cozzzz…. i have a winrar.. softwere…..
plsssss… replay….. i what to nkow how to do that….

- 25 December 2009 at 6:34 am

SAGAR V BHARNE said:

i have implemented it on my folder and it was working.thank’s

- 26 December 2009 at 3:19 pm

Shubham said:

Hello Srikant,
Your this trick really works but is there any way to break the password provided through this trick.
Reply Soon.
Thanks in advance

- 27 December 2009 at 4:40 pm

adi said:

hey man does not works in vista ultimate

- 28 December 2009 at 8:03 pm

Srikanth (author) said:

@ JED

If you have Winrar then you can use it by default to set the password. The above trick works only in the absense of Winrar/Winzip

- 29 December 2009 at 1:51 pm

Srikanth (author) said:

@ Azmat

Seems like it is the result of some virus/malicious program. Please perform a complete virus scan for your computer.

- 29 December 2009 at 2:15 pm

jeff said:

DUDE SWEET! AND I ALSO LIKE THE CAMERA THING TOO!
BUT YEAH THIS IS COOL AND WORKS!
THANX!

- 2 January 2010 at 9:55 am

anduru said:

hey…when i click to delete…its deleting……..!!!

i want a lock file undeleting

- 8 January 2010 at 11:06 am

RVM said:

Hi,
When I try open my hard drives i get a pop window(Open With) saying “choose a program from the list to open the drive”.Is it because of some virus?, I did a full scan in my computer with Avira but it has not gone.Any suggestions??Which is the best Antivirus software?

- 8 January 2010 at 1:34 pm

jed said:

but thas is not works in windows 7…..
when i try that wtha you will say not works….

- 9 January 2010 at 4:54 pm

jed said:

but thanks for your help…

- 9 January 2010 at 5:00 pm

swati said:

hi my problm is i m able to enable that hidden option..like yu hav said abov that is wrks in the absense of winzip wts ds…..n 1 thing more how i can retrive deleted data….evn deleted from recycling bin……..repl on my email lovepie007@gtmail.com,…tnx

- 9 January 2010 at 6:50 pm

Deepak said:

after giving the password the folder opens with out asking password
what should i do now…. please inform

- 9 January 2010 at 6:59 pm

krishnakanth said:

Hi i like this post and wanna more about Hacking information & tips if possible pls send them to my ID which i Given here. Thanks in advance. I m waiting for ur mails.

Please send them which can be understand to a beginner level also.

- 12 January 2010 at 3:50 pm

Srikanth (author) said:

@ RVM

No it’s not because of any Virus. Windows has some bugs and these can be overcome by re-installing the OS.

- 21 January 2010 at 4:08 pm

Terminator said:

hey srikanth,ur doing a wonderful job…….
Plz tell me, if i want to an expert in hacking and stuff, is there any somputer course which i shuld be taking? i mean will these computer institutions like orbit and others,will they teach us how to hack? and what is this ethical hacking? does it help us in hacking acnts?

- 29 January 2010 at 4:53 pm

Rohan said:

This is a very very old trick…
and i found it not to be useful even 1 percent..
But you Usb disable virus is good..

- 30 January 2010 at 9:06 pm

Tachia said:

Srikanth, this has to do with the email hacking page. I couldn’t seem to leave a comment/question there. The Sniper-spy you suggested… would that be compatible if sending it to someone who’s using a mac instead of a pc? I have a PC they have a Mac.
I would really appreciate any help you could offer on this.
Thank you very much,
Tachia

- 5 February 2010 at 6:41 am

Srikanth (author) said:

@ Tachia

Sniperspy is not compatible with MAC. It works only if the target computer runs on PC.

- 5 February 2010 at 2:26 pm

Subrato said:

U r great man its really working

Thanks for helping

- 6 February 2010 at 2:44 pm

swapnil said:

Hi sir,
I tried to do what you told, but it’s not working in windows 7.I also have winzip.Is there any way out to crack this password?Plz tell.Thanx

- 22 February 2010 at 6:04 pm

Ken said:

this is a great help i was always looking for folder protector softwares but neva knew such a easy way thanks .. and one more question if u forgot the passowrd then how can you open that zip file…

- 11 March 2010 at 10:05 am

jackson said: