How to Hide Files and Folders in Windows 10 - Do you have a secret file that must be hidden and
does not want to be known by others? For example, personal photos or
videos, or maybe important documents that other people don't want to
erase when your laptop is borrowed.
This time geekswarrior.com will explain the steps
on how to hide a file or folder in Windows 10 through file explorer, the
goal is that the file or folder cannot be found by others.
How to Hide Files and Folders Through File Explorer
Here are the steps on how to hide files and folders in Windows 10 easily through file explorer.
1. Please open the file explorer by pressing the Windows button + E on your keyboard.
2. Navigate to the folder or file you want to hide.
For example, I have one folder and three files in the My Documents folder as seen in the image below.
Here I want to hide two files namely Geekswarrior.com 1 and Geekswarrior.com 2, just select the two files, then right-click and select the Properties menu.
Then the Properties window will appear as shown
below, on the General tab please click the Hidden option in the Attributes section.
After that, please click the OK button.
Then the file that we have hidden earlier will disappear as shown below.
Until here we have managed to hide the file. Now we will try to hide the folder in the same way.
Please select the folder to hide -> right-click and select Properties -> then check the Hidden options in the Attributes section.
Now we have successfully hidden the folder.
Now the files and folders that we hide are safe and cannot be accessed and found by others who use our computers.
How to Display Hidden Files and Folders
If you want to access files or folders that you have hidden, you can display it by clicking the View menu then clicking the Hidden items option.
Hidden files will look more transparent than other files.
Well, I hope this tutorial can be useful for you, thanks and see you next time.
