Sunday, 11 March 2012

How to hide a file/folder in windows 7?(Disable the Folder option)

This is a continuation of my previous post  'How to hide a file/folder  in windows 7?', which was a very basic method for hiding files/folders in windows . But their is a drawback with this method ,this files can be easily seen if we select show hidden files,folders and drive . A slightly lengthy method but more affective way is as follows
  • Now disable the Folder Options from registry so that no one can unhide them.For this follow the steps
  •     Press 'Windows+R' . Run window appears.Type regedit and enter. Following window appears

  •  Now browse down to 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Policies\Explorer'.
  •  Right click in the window select New>DWORD (32 bit) Value as shown.



  •  Name it as NoFolderOptions and set its value to 1.
  • Restart the pc for registry to reinitialize . Thus folder option is disabled.(check it)...

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