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How to Make An Invisible Password Protected Folder

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Password-protected-folderDo you want to password protect your folder? Do you want to make it invisible so that it remains unnoticed by other users of your PC? 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:

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: 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 go to 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 the Folder Invisible?

Step-1: 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

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.

I hope you like this post. Pass your comments!! Cheers :)



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52 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 [email protected],…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:

    Hi…
    I go through all of ur posts .all are very very useful.
    thanks a lot …

    - 12 March 2010 at 11:21 AM
  • HIREN SHAH said:

    THANKS IT REALLY WORKS BUT AS YOU SAID I CANT HIDE BCOZ OF WINZIP

    - 21 March 2010 at 9:58 PM
  • Arun jha said:

    sorry ..sri
    its not working..
    the zipped folder is not asking for any pass..hope you will look over it again..
    regards
    Arun jha…blesss uuuuu

    - 25 March 2010 at 11:46 AM
  • hb_08IT said:

    hi..friends
    nice workk….

    - 7 April 2010 at 12:10 AM
  • sam said:

    cool man it really works!!

    thank u

    - 8 April 2010 at 7:10 AM
  • seedrom193 said:

    hi,
    thank you for this web-site , i liked it do much

    - 8 April 2010 at 4:33 PM
  • ASWIN DEV P.K said:

    You can increase the security by the following methods.
    1)First change ur zip folder into another file format by changing the extension to that of a system file like .sys or .dll etc.To do so u need to uncheck the box HIDE EXTENSIONS FOR KNOWN FILE TYPES in Tools > folder options > View Tab.After unchecking select the zip file and press F2(or right click > rename).Delete the portion after the .(ie zip) and change it to dll.(for eg: abcd.zip will be changed to abcd.dll).Then press enter . It will ask a sequrity question. then press yes.Then it will be changed to a dll file .(To open the file again you need to rename it again as abcd.zip).
    2)Now you need to change this to a system file ,for that navigate to the directory where the file is located in command prompt( by cd command eg: to change to c:\games use cd c:\games\).Now write on command prompt “attrib +a +s +h abcd.dll” without quotes.This will assign hidden,archive,system file properties to bcd.dll. To view these files u need to uncheck the option HIDE PROTECTED OPERATING SYSTEM FILES in folder options.

    - 30 April 2010 at 3:07 PM
  • jamilo kumali said:

    Thanks for the tutorials.. please i want to learn hacking.. you can add me to your yahoo messenger [email protected]
    i am a computer science student

    - 11 May 2010 at 4:35 PM
  • vikas said:

    hey guys
    i’hve another very great idea to password protect your folder without using any software
    by creating a .bat file

    - 12 May 2010 at 8:17 AM
  • Abhijeet said:

    Hi shrikant
    I have one software which lock and hide folder or drive.
    But is their any software which can break this software or onlock and show this folder or drive.

    - 7 June 2010 at 11:32 AM
  • shiv said:

    this is realy cool i implements all tricks and it works

    - 21 June 2010 at 6:43 PM
  • narendra said:

    how do i crack this passsword?

    - 3 July 2010 at 11:09 PM
  • Nilesh Verma said:

    Hello AZAMAT some day i also face same problem when i click apply and then ok it’s automatic diselected and i was unable to unhide my hidden file. I will tell how can u unhide your files first go to the the TOOLS in MENU BAR (top of the window)then FOLDER OPTION then VIEW in HIDDEN FILE FOLDER OPTION select the SHOW THE HIDDEN FILE after selecting this only click APPLY and close the windows ur hidden documents will unhide.Don’t Click on “OK”.
    I hope it will helpful to you!!Enjoy!
    Thank’s!

    - 6 July 2010 at 1:46 AM
  • Ashish said:

    hi srikant bddy..
    m trying to learn something from your this site & would like to tell you that bddy i was unable to lock this folder..can u tell me in a descriptive way..
    & bddy there’s another way of creating a folder lock i.e creating a batch file…
    that works bddy.
    rply soon.
    thnx

    - 6 July 2010 at 1:17 PM
  • phani said:

    ur answers are pretty interesting , i like it.

    plzzz answer this

    how to hide and write protect a folder using dos commands
    email:
    [email protected]

    - 19 July 2010 at 10:23 PM
  • Rohit said:

    hy!! dude thanxxx its really works but it also works with jzip also….by going into action then encyrept it want password to lock your file…..thanxx

    - 29 July 2010 at 11:57 AM
  • Cristiano said:

    honestly, this is a very simple way to do that and doesn´t always work, since a lot of ppl use zip and rar files to compress files and zip files are not folders…

    the best way to create a safe “folder” or even a virtual drive, is using a tool like truecrypt, create a container file with a good password and a good algorithm and create a virtual drive using the same container…

    I Created a safe virtual drive using 100gb of my HD, created the container file with a good encryption and mounted the file as a folder, to create the file it took some hours, but its better than zipping

    You can even encrypt the entire system drive with this program, and its free and opensource

    - 1 August 2010 at 8:13 AM
  • vikas said:

    hello guys
    hey srikant you have awesome knowledge
    I have also a very better technique to hide folder with simply password protected folder.That i want to share with you all.
    It is much better than this technique
    if you allow me so……

    - 6 August 2010 at 1:31 AM
  • SURYA said:

    yep it’s working good work.

    - 26 August 2010 at 9:55 PM
  • Vishal said:

    Nice trick dude!!

    - 29 August 2010 at 6:08 AM
  • Rothlyn said:

    Well this post is simple here is an advanced way.

    1. Make a new folder.

    2. rename the folder hold down alt and press 255 on your numpad.
    This gives your folder blank name instead of “new folder” it will say ” ” ( without quotes ).

    3. Right-Click the nameless folder and click the Customize tab.

    4. Click “change icon” at the bottom of the menu. Select a blank icon ( it appears as nothing like a space between the other available icons.)

    5. Press ok and ok again and your done.

    NOTE: you can also hide it or hide your files in pictures.

    [email protected]

    - 30 August 2010 at 5:02 AM
  • calajpat said:

    sir,
    folder opens without asking for password

    - 2 September 2010 at 1:12 PM
  • jignesh bhavani said:

    that’s very cool trick!

    - 5 September 2010 at 11:50 AM