How to Hide Files in Windows
Note: this will not keep fbi/police/anyone who knows computers really good from finding your files, only computer illiterate people and people who aren’t really looking for incriminating files on your computer.
Hiding The Files/Directories:
1) hide directories
2) encrypted directories
3) CDs and floppies
Hiding The Evidence:
1) browser history
2) cookies
3) temp files
4) windows history (Start->documents)
Ok, let me first start off with why you would want to do this. You live at home with your parents and your brothers and sisters. They all use the computer every once and a while, but you use it all day. You do a few things on it that you would rather keep any of them from knowing about. ex. hacking. I’ll try to share some knowledge I’ve gained on keeping things secret from people on windows, I don’t know if this will work with any other versions of windows (most likely they will). I will keep this very short and to the point, there are tons of little details that I could get into, but it would be a waste of everyone’s time. Just think to yourself how to keep them more secret and you’ll be more productive than reading 40 pages by me telling you not to write down the location of your files on a post-it by the monitor.
I’ve decided to break this tutorial down into 2 main categories. Hiding Files And Directories is the first, and Hiding The Evidence is the second.

