Secure & Hide your Personal Data

Introduction

Normally we hide our personal data in Windows using Hidden Attributes but this data is visible, when we enable “Show Hidden Files & Folders” from Folder Options.

So in this case our data is not fully secure.

To completely hide our personal data we have to use “System Attribute” which is not available in default Attributes in combination with Hidden & Read-only Attributes. So we implement this using DOS.

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Hide/Show only Files:

This command only hides single file or group of files but don’t hide folders.

1. Open start menu & click Run
2. Type cmd
3. Now type attrib +s +h +r filename

• If file name is “image. jpg” & is located in partition C then command looks like attrib +s +h +r C:\image.jpg

1. To Show file again type same command but use – sign instead of +

• For showing “image. jpg” attrrib –s –h –r c:\image.jpg

Hide/Show Complete Folder & Files:

This is more powerful command which hide all the files & folders inside directory.

1. Open start menu & click Run
2. Type cmd
3. Now type attrib/d +s +h +r /s foldername

• If folder name is “XeeSoft” & is located in partition C then command looks like attrib/d +s +h +r /s C:\xeesoft

1. To Show file again type same command but use – sign instead of +

• For showing “xeesoft” attrrib/d –s –h –r /s c:\xeesoft

Hide/Show Complete Partition:

For hiding all files and folders from full partition use the following command

Attrib/d +s +h +r /s D:

This command hides all the data from partition d.

Note:

Above commands are not case sensitive.

This command does not work if System Files are shown.