If you are sharing your computer with your other room mates and don’t like to let them know about your secrets but you don’t have a separate system still you are looking for a method to save everything from them then you are at a right place. There are lots of lot folder locker and encryptions are available on the internet and most of them look for some money and unfortunately if you lost the password you will feel unlucky to retrieve the data back.
Here is a very simple and easy trick to create or rename an existing folder invisible. How to make a folder invisible, steps are given as under; Screen Shots of this trick are given at the end of this post;
1. Create or modify the existing folder
2. During the naming hold the Alt key and enter “0160” (with out double quotes) you will see nothing but its entered already (0160 means a non-breaking space) because you can’t enter a space as a name but when you enter 0160 it will enter a non-breaking space as the name of the folder
3. Now you have created a folder without a name but still anyone can see the folder, lets jump to the next step that will really makes you folder invisible.
4. Right click on the folder and go to the properties
5. Go to Customize Tab
6. Go to Change Icon Button
7. Choose a Blank Icon from the list and Press OK
Hurry!!!!! you are done with your trick.
Go back to the folder list and press select all (Ctrl + A) you will see a blank space, that’s your invisible folder.
Let me share the screen shots of this process;
