Computer Trick - Hidden Folder
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Alternatively you can hide stuff you want to keep secret in your Skyrim mods folder like a normal person.
That used to work for me until I had to hide my futanari Veronica mod, messed with my skyrim mods.
Okay, but how would I hide my Skyrim mod folder?
@@Fickets that's the neat part, you don't.
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*Laughs in Windows 11 Pro file encryption*
"you will never find my secret files!"
*checks recent files*
You can disable that feature as well..
Or just open "desktop" in Explorer and it will be the first thing people will click. Dumbest "trick" ever.
Dir /s
Rightclick the file in recent files -> remove from recent files (or hide, or whatever).
or *looks at it anyway other than the desktop.
"You will never find my secret files"
"Neither will you"
Hahahhahah
Clicks desktop, presses Ctrl + A and sees all icons, including hidden ones, highlighted.
Exactly what I was thinking. Anyways, super secret files should be encrypted with a super secret key. There are loads of tools available which will do this for you - and some of them even don’t let Big Tech giants read your files despite them being encrypted. Open source for the win!
Exactly the 1st thing that came to my mind
@@AroundnBackAgain Went to comments to say the same. Also, navigation in cmd is quicker
genius
What about actually hidden files and not ones with invisible icons and a name that uses a non-visible character? doesn't show up for me
Everyone that opens the desktop in Explorer: "Why does this folder look so weird, let me check what's going on!"
The best way to hide something is not to hide it at all but blend it in.
Wait what would it look like 🤔
@@parthasarathyvenkatadri put the folder in your Documents folder, with a boring name like "Tax Forms 2017" or "MATLAB". Something a normal person would have no reason to open
@@morisn ah yes, the old hiding in plain sight! Love it ! 😀
@@morisn dad: why is the homework folder taking 1TB space
Equivalent real-life trick:
If you hide your eyes behind your hands, no-one can see you
🤣
I read this as if you hide your eyes behind your back
Exactly! Peekaboo!
Too funny 😆😅😅
That’s good 😂
I am old enough for anything "secret" to be openly displayed on my desktop. Freedom, buddy.
His wife checks his computer regularly after he asked for an accountability partner for his porn addiction 😂
Wait so you have a Shrek porn folder on your desktop?
Its a trick for pedos 😂😂😂
Or open file explorer and see it in 4 seconds... People don't keep secrets on your computer. Anyone with skills will find it.
Yup if you are hiding shit it's most likely Illegal.
The ease in which that folder can be found and displayed is astounding
If you turn the monitor off, it will magically hide all the files.
Did you hear about the trick it is called scissors for disgusting long fingernails on men hands... YUKKK
If my grandmother had wheels she would've been a bike
@@writenamehere0000 that's a bit sexist
@@writenamehere0000 😂
@@clutchie2125 In your brain only.
“Definitely not porn folder”
💀
😅😅 you're going get us caught my dude relax lol
😂
You keep your porn ON your computer?
For some reason my hardware drivers folder was full of porn.
You: It's finally hidden!
Someone: *Presses Ctrl A*
Finally a better way of storing my "homework"
As a corollary trick, if you click anywhere on the desktop, then hit ctrl+a, it will highlight all the folders on the desktop, including the hidden ones. In case you forget where you put it, or wanna see if someone else has hidden desktop folders.
You can also hide your desktop icons so that the desktop is just another folder, which you can mark as hidden.
Yeah much simpler to just not hide stuff on the desktop? Considering its dead easy to find and even more SUS when they do find it.
To keep the folder from being visible when highlighted (in Windows 7), you can set the desktop's view to not "align icons to grid" and then drag the icon so that it's just a few pixels beyond the screen's top or bottom border. You will still be able to double click it if you know where it is.
Just lock it with passwords or encrypt the directory...................
@@mupetmower7807 Make it a zip, rename it with dll extension and hide it in your windows/system folder.
Here is a trick to find all the hidden folders. Hold left click and drag the mouse over the entire desktop.
Ctrl-a while on desktop
@@riversilk or, you know, open the file explorer…
Win-E
@One-Eyed Beanie you don’t need to click anything.
I was thinking the same thing
And then someone opens the desktop folder.
The blank icon should prevent it from being seen visually. BUT you could how much folders there's in the desktop so if there +1 you don't see you know it's invisible but here
@@Wilky971 or you open the explorer, switch it to the detail view and go to the desktop. You are curious and open the strange blank folder.
I so enjoyed being in nature enjoying my life and the last thing I ever want to do is stare at that little box all day and think I accomplished something
Do you take magic mushrooms?
I just hide the stuff I don't want people to find in my porn folders.
Them: What do you name your secret porn folder? Me: porn... It's not a secret.
presse ctrl a and sees porn@@ThaRealIansanity
Oh I get you man.👍🏻
@@ThaRealIansanity you dirent get it bro
😂😂😂
And here's some Cyber-Security 101: Security through obscurity is not security.
He said its a "trick". He never said anything about security lol
Not to mention if you use Windows, you're already failed.
@@dingdong2103 what? failed how?. oh waaait dont tell 'use a mac it has better security' even though almost anything has the same chance of having they're security cracked if its a pc or a phone Etc. something with secure or private information
@@NotOuuija There are other OSes than mac and windows FYI. And the amount of attacks in the wild is about 1000 imes higher for windows than any other OS. Also, Windows just sucks to use.
@@dingdong2103 ok yeah you didn't get my point did ya buddy? Anything can get attacked literally anything computer related regardless of security level your computer's safety is purely based on ones stupidity and 'attacks in the wild' being a 1000 times higher sorry that statistic is just wrong assuming you weren't exaggerating. Windows is faster ease of use and the most common operating system so yeah it being the most popular is gonna warrant constant attacks from people with malicious intent. It's also the most compatible with with like 95% of all programs while Mac can barely run games if any at all, Linux is just downright trash. All you need is basic antivirus, know what your downloading and what sites you are visiting. Maybe get a cheap vpn and as long as you aren't careless you have a virtually 0% percent chance of ever having a security breach and your passwords and email and bank info leaked so when you say bad security I just can't agree because really everything has bad security unless you have a 3rd party program watching your back. Anyway I'm tired and that hurt my fingers goodnight sir
Great way to fuck with someone's computer. Then press CTRL+A, then CTRL+click the folder, then drag all the desktop icons to that folder LOL
Get a warrant for this guys electronics lol
Exactly! He’s definitely viewing some illegal images that would put him on the registry.
Alt+255 is old school ascii for an invisible character that is specifically not a space. A lot of old games used commands at the dos prompt that used 255 to access cheat codes :)
I did not know that. However, I do remember making directories in DOS using that character.
ASCII doesn't go to 255 it stops at 127 . The character is actually Unicode which is what Windows actually uses instead of ASCII and is literally called EOF or end of file.
@@gryphon2251 It's not unicode, it's extended ASCII, which is the high 128 values of the 8-bit range. This predates unicode.
@@PaulJohnsonM Yes it is. Anything within the 127 is ASCII but anything outside is an extension and while ASCII is a subset of that extension it is not an extension of ASCII in pretty much anything anymore. Windows uses Unicode which is ASCII for 0-127 and strictly Unicode for anything outside of it. ASCII is literally called UTF-7 in Unicode and the rest of 128-255 is UTF-8 then you have UTF-16, UTF-32 and UTF-64 as extensions of Unicode not ASCII. There are several different tables used for the 8-bit values that were used before Unicode came into existence. Hell some computers even put graphics into 128-255. Apple had a different set than IBM did as well. Windows only uses the Unicode UTF-8 for the 8-bit table so no this is not ASCII it is Unicode.
@@PaulJohnsonM Incorrect. ANSI X3.4-1986, which is what defines what is considered ASCII, was never updated to include more characters than 0-177. Anything past that is not ASCII not even "extended ASCII" which was never actually a thing in the first place. Any 8-bit table is entirely separate of ASCII and always has been. ASCII has always and will always be 7-bit only.
I used to create a folder with the internet explorer logo and name. Worked 60% of the time every time.
This comment is underrated. I read it, exited out, then it hit me. Came back to leave a comment 😂😂
Only older relatives will know my secrets
😂😂😂❤
60% of the time, but also every time? Hmmm
@@maybeqbe8485that's some weird computer math
Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight.
Yes interesting, much like people who have dark secrets, can hide in plain sight, appearing normal at first until behind closed doors.
All my passwords are in a file called "Nothing Interesting", and I'm sure that's just fine
Ever heard of KeePassXC?
All my passwords are in a file called Passwords.
mine in Math Materials folder
I used to keep my passwords 10 pages into a really boring grade 11 literature project of mine. It was safer than a bank vault... until the hard drive gave up the ghost.
Make a folder with that name stored in a programs files, make a shortcut to it on desktop named chromium and use default chromium icon and make it so much less suspicious
explorer users be like: "It's not very effective..."
was about to say that :)))
Lol
@@hikaripenelope7831 haha :)
Or anything that walks through directories for that matter (like windirstat to see where disk space gets used for instance)
Or Con + A
Everybody gangsta until the green check thing appears on the hidden file
Knew it since the 90s…. Old but gold
I just label the folder "super secret stuff". Then I won't lose it.
Just label it "NOT child pornography" and you should be fine - as long as there actually isn't any child pornography in there. Because its illegal. Obviously. If you have child pornography in a folder labeled "NOT chimd pornography" the police, investigators and everyone else will be very upset with you because you lied to them. And the illegal bit ofc sure but we
"PASSWORDS AND BANK CODES"
Everyone will respect your privacy too.
Here's an FBI trick. Click on any other icon. Hold the CTRL button down and press A. You now have highlighted all he hidden folders 😀
😄
FBI just boots the computer up into linux and then does a directory search of the hard drive and exports it to a txt file and opens it on their mac to parse through the quantum levels of the contents to determine what is chmod or not to be hidden
Thanks for the FBI tips
Just imagine how secret files must be when placed in folders not even on the Desktop.
They'll never find the stuff in my 'Samples of Fungal Culture' folder. 😂
Your mom accidentally pressing Ctrl+A on the desktop:
🤣🤣😆🤣😆
The odds are a million to one ✌🏻😬
@@quakeranger You would be suprised.
"Mom" 😂
Alternatively, make a Hentai folder on your coworkers desktop, set a screenshot of the desktop as background, and delete the folder. When he comes back he'll try to select the folder so that he can get rid of it, but can't, since it's part of the background.
The one who never done this never lived😂👍
One of many pranks you can use to help remind people to lock their damn company computers :P
You guys have way to much time at work 😂
Someone check that man's hard drive
Here's a funny story. I spent years as a desktop tech. One time, after a call, my boss calls me into his office, because there's a pissed off customer who wants to know what happened to their files. I'm like, I don't know I was just doing my job, what do you mean? After some review with the customer, he was using the RECYCLE BIN for storage. Yep. Using his recycle bin and never emptying it. I came along, did my job and emptied his trash on the way out, and there went all his stuff. My boss really couldn't get too mad at me after that, and the knucklehead couldn't even argue the point. I get the feeling it wasn't the first time it happened to him. Some people. 🤷
Wow, they never understood that the bin is used excactly what it states. It's a bin.
brilliant story
Whyd you empty his recycle bin tho. Did you check for backups?
@@skata100 maybe because it took a lot of space on the drive?
@@skata100 why would you NOT empty a full bin? it's just a natural reflex
*Laughs in UNIX shell*
~/.homework/
It only takes 3000 hours to learn!
dot dot space
@@cpmc5400nah, unless youre using arch, gentoo, linux from scratch or some old distro like slackware everything is very easy to use. Drivers on windows and workarounds that you may do for some things are way harder
~/.superhiddenfolder/notporn.jpg no one will find it there. 😂
It's super secret until someone does literally anything to find it but yeah.
when daddy successfully finished his home town college computer seminar for retired people over the weekend...
yes, desktop is the ultimate place to store hidden fodlers.
True, Because No One is going to open The "Desktop" Folder in explorer.
@@alnadev I would hide it in efi partition windows makes
@@starleigh6680 Or just Create a Normal NTFS Partition and mark it as Hidden like efi. But I Don't Like this way.
@@alnadev what if they are looking for additional partitions in disk manager
@@starleigh6680 That means, there is No Safe Place to Hide Files. Except Encrypted Cloud Services Drives (if you Always Sign Out from the Cloud Services Web of course).
Back in the DOS days, I would add the alt+255 blank character to the beginning of the directory (folder) name. People would be confused because they would try to cd into the directory and the OS would respond with “directory does not exist”. 🤣
dos days had norton commander
Being a bit computer savvy, you can create a hidden folder (from sight) and put files in it but all the information is still stored inside the PC... you can find anything if you know how
Ctrl+a will highlight it anyway and I guess it'll be displayed in Explorer anyways.
These hidden folder shorts multiply like rabbits
Still nowhere near folk filling in holes on drywall!
He looks like a super hidden folder type of guy.
this has candy in my pocket written all over it
When I sober up, I won't remember any of that
Friend's computer---guy named it "system shutdown" so his wife wouldn't open it.
Devious
I used to do this wayyyy back in the day, but after I stored files, I gave it a command in case they found the folder if I left the PC on for security, this would restart the PC if anyone clicked on it, and got locked out because of my password. The way to access the folder was to delete that command then open the folder.
Love that tip!
Nice one 👍
What is command and how to give it to folder ? I just googled it but I can't get my head around it.Please elaborate!
That’s actually really neat
Always keep your important stuff in unsupported solutions!
2006 called, they want their "computer life hack" back
Yeah, right? I put my porn on the cloud. JK I stream it, obviously.
Until someone rearranges the desktop and wonders why that gap won't fill! 😂
And anything that goes into that blank space disappears... viola, we've got ourselves the Bermuda Folderangle
@@alam1629 🤣
Or opens the desktop folder in explorer. Busted.
@@alam1629 Bermuda Folderangle im literally gasping for air rn
Using the empty character was a way to make folders “inaccessible” on old school windows. If you clicked it in the gui it wouldn’t open. No idea why I’d ever have needed to know this.
All the people are rushing to delete their secret folders thanks mister
my man just changed 12-16 males lives.
The first thing I did was name a text doc inside "Not Pork" all I wrote was There is no pork here
That's a very small number of males
Lol, not even a new trick. . .
It’s all good until you use file explorer and look at the desktop folder
No he didn't, he just gave them a false sense of security.
Alt 255 gets me a character that's a black "?" on a white square standing on its corner
That sass in "I bet u didn't know"😂
Here's a trick you didn't know.
Don't install Win 11.
I like Win 11.
@@dimebagdd someone has to
windows 11 is so pretty though
@@sharrel704So looks are more important than functionality? 🤡🤡🤡
Linux sucks 😂😂😂
I knew it, but I use a different key combination, Alt-0160. Make another similar folder inside the first, to be really devious. And then put the folder somewhere other than your desktop.
Yeah and it can be a bit tricky to access your desktop if your drive crashes. I try to never keep important stuff on the desktop, only shortcuts
@@theterminaldave I dont keep anything on the Desktop. Completely empty so i can appreciate my wallpaper more.
@@brandon10301991 impressive, I wish I could say the same, though if you right click there's an option to hide all desktop icons anyway
If codes don't work, one can always copy a space off character map
Now I have a tidy desktop, thanks for your tip:-)
I wish I had known this trick when I was younger, back when I had to use my family computer ... LOL
Next ultimate trick: basic hygiene
Ew.
I did a version of this back in high school. Back then, File Explorer in Windows 3.1 couldn't read a directory with that character in it, so this made a folder that, even if you could see it, you couldn't access without a DOS prompt. I used this to hide an OS on the school's computers that I would use when I didn't feel like using their locked down version.
I remember when you could insert a 'shell' into a word document to bypass the lockdown. You could also ctrl+c the autoexec.bat file on startup if timed correctly.
Someones girl just got done watching this video and is now dragging a random file across the desktop
Aye, great idea until you get drunk, move it, then wake up the next day and spend an age trying to find it again !
I save all my secret on a floppy disk.
not too many secrets I guess....
Old school. : >
5,25
you running a 386?
@@harrybelele plenty launch codes can fit on it I guess
My toxic trait wants me to do that to every folder I have and I am sure I can find them after 😂
This is for deterring the most basic of intruders
C: -> users -> whateveryouruseris -> desktop
"Huh.. looks like there's a folder here with no name. Totally not suspicious. LETS LOOK IN IT."
Alternatively, you can put a passcode on your PC, stop letting invasive and insecure people into your life, or stream it in incognito mode like a normal person!
I feel this would be useful for kids if their parents go through their devices. Can’t imagine if you hid it in file explorer and kept it on your desktop they’d ever find it.
or just dont let peoples tell you that you have to hide away the fact that you watch porn
like, im 27 now, everyone i interact with knows what porn is so why should i be hiding it
@@shiva_hardly_sarcasticwell it's probably full of child porn
Or if you're a nerd like me you can set up a batch script to encode the folder and hide it
@@connermckay4012 uhhh we got a nerd over here
"Did you know you can customize Windows?" Bet you didn't know. I'll be using my flying toaster screen saver.
RIGHT?!?!?!
Next up on "I Bet You Didn't Know" - how to setup your own sweet WinAmp music visualiser....
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I guess.
The moment he said "you make a new folder", I knew immediately.
Growing up with younger siblings in the late 00s, this was a pretty decent way of hiding folders, until it wasnt.
This brings me back to middle school. I got in so much trouble making a bunch of hidden folders with hidden folders in them. Nothing in them but it was still funny.
Also you can use a locking program such as Folder Lock or Folder Guard, to lock the folder with a password. Easy and fast even for an amateur.
Here is two other things you didn't know to get the ASCII character for a space: Hold down the ALT, then 255, the release the ALT. This only works on the numeric keyboard. It will not work with the numbers at the top of your keyboard.
I remembered my teen days. Lol. Used Windows XP, and this was Very helpful
Try converting this into a system file and hide it. You are set for life.
That folder does NOT have no name. The name of the folder is the unicode character that you create with Alt+255 which is non breaking space ( btw. Strange that Windows allows to name files and folders that way).
This is also no place for you secret files. For this you should use encryption
this used to be worse in earlier versions of windows. GUI interfaces were not compatible with it, so you could create files and folders with it in the name, and they would be undeletable (you needed to use command prompt to manage it); Was a fun way to troll people back in the day. (trick doesnt work these days)
@@takeiteasyeh u could change permissions to read and write only?
Ah .. bringing up memories from our DOS time when we tried to hide a folder on a school computer from the other kids :)
Yeah I remember some one in school showing me hidden folders… then I just used search and it comes up straight away 😂
Bypassing “apply” and just hitting “okay” is WILD.
* proceeds to highlight your main page *
I knew this for decades. But I can find all files on a computer regardless.
Great way to keep your desktop clutter free.
That blank line is gonna stick out like a sore thumb in windows explorer and windows is still gonna index everything you put in there so the files and that folder will pop up when you type anything in the search bar.
You can turn off indexing
That's Windows 95-era trick. Where you been all this time boy?!
Wow.
So anyone a little bit curious, hovering over it and seeing a highlighted empty section is going to double click it.
And fing out all of my secret files.
this trick ages old. you did not surprise me
It turns into a solid black box as a folder icon after you reboot your pc. Not exactly hidden anymore 😂
m2
Just rename the folder "Nothing to see here". That will fool them
Turned into a black box right away when I clicked OK.
And if you want to delete the folder as such, it says that it is a system folder...
@@paulgallagher2937 No, the name has to be super stupid...your variant calls the curious to look in the folder
Did this back in 2005 on Windows xp
same but 09
Total Commander will dig that little bit of treasure and open your file.
ctrl + a is the reason why my cousin can't trust this kind of hidden folder I saw his folder containing 5gb worth of homework files.
Just name your folder "Taxes" and no criminal will ever waste a second with it.
The IRS are not criminals?
Moms be like: What happened to your 2TB 'Homework' folder.
2TB... noob!
lol
Super secret folder that you will easily see in the Desktop directory
Instructions unclear. I’m now wanted by the FBI
if you want to know if there's a hidden file, just try to rename another one on the desktop using alt 255
Couldn't you left click and drag?
I noticed it leaves a faints square outline -- so it's still noticeable, but if you have a busy image for a wallpaper, then you can better hide it.
"super secret stuff" is nasty work
My secret stash in the fruity loops drum kit 808 folder.
wonderful way to hide my "homework" folder
Sure. Homework. :D
IT'S THE PERFECT SYSTEM