Hi .. I have recently brought up a sony vaio laptop with windows vista business.. Before this i was not familiar with vista OS... Please give me most secured and convenient way to hide my private folders in my laptop.. you can also refer any software but it should not be harmful for Laptop...... Thanks....
First right click on the folder and select 'Properties' at the end of menu. Then check box Attributes to 'Hidden' at the end in properties option. Make sure that in folder and search options (Folder options -> View -> Advanced settings -> check box 'Do not show hidden files and folders' option. DON.
Beside the method above, you can use Lock Folder XP to hide your folder securely. The software can be use in Vista although XP is in the name of that software. http://www.everstrike.com/lock_folder.htm
Thanks for your Suggestion... But it's a very very traditional way to hide folders.. I mean even the student of a 5th class can Un hide this.... I am looking for most secured way.....
Here is the link. http://www.download.com/Folder-Lock/3000-2092_4-10063343.html It is a paid software. You can try it for 35 days.
Usually if there's something sensitive in the folder, I will encrypt it using Winzip or Winrar and get it password protected.
Lock Folder Is Great And the Hidden Way (Come On DON, That is SO known, my 5 years old cousin can do it)
To protect folders you need software like folderlock or you can use zip with a password it's one of the safest as it users AE256 encryption to encrypt the files also in case if someone's has your zip password I would use my own encryption methods instead of relying on someother softwares which is not safe..
Believe in yourself and then success will itself comes to you. Your post is giving good information on hiding the private folders. Like this very often such posts are seen but one of such post reminds me of story of success which i have seen at http://www.succcess.org/2008/09/01/the-belief-tree-why-success-is-binary/#comments
Just because they can doesn't mean they will. If I put a secret folder in /system32/drivers/ and hid it, would you ever find it? Even if it was hidden in My Documents, what reason would you have for displaying hidden files?