Give an empty name to files and folders to hide them in Windows (make -up)

This is one of the tastiest and most classic Windows tricks that some may not remember or have never known.
Make a folder invisible one Give an empty name to a filemeans that they hide from the sight of those who use the computer and do not know about its existence.
The folder or file therefore remains present and can be found, but which has no name, it is impossible to notice it for those who do not know that they exist. Moreover, it is also possible to hide and make the icon invisibly.
It is an ingenious trick for Keep a file hidden or make an invisible folderTo hide there in files that want to stay private and that you do not want others to open, without wanting to use the protection with passwords.

The method is very simple and will make a folder that we want to keep private and personal to see the others.
First Make a new folder Wherever you want, click on the right button and go up Property.
In the map Personalization Press the test Change the icon And, from the list, search and select one of the empty icons.
After the icon has been removed from the folder, you must Reset the name.
Trying to rename a folder is discovered that Windows does not accept that it is unnamed.
The trick is then of Resume the folder in this way: Press us on the right button, press by Resuming Keep the key out of the menu and then, when the name is selected by blue Alto On the keyboard and type the numbers 0160to leave Alto and press Dispatch. If it doesn’t work, press Alt, hold it down and type the number 255Leave Alt and press Enter.
Attention to write the figures for which it is needed Use the numeric keyboard keyboard Otherwise it won’t work.
What is done through the alto key is writing an empty character.

If you want to make multiple public limited folders, repeat the empty character two, three or more times.

The folder will therefore become invisible and only that he has transformed it this way, he will be able to know his existence to open it.
With this system you can easily create invisible folders on Windows in every part of the disk.
The invisible folder can be visible for one or two seconds if they are placed on the desktop, in the initial drawers of Windows.
Moreover, the presence of a folder is even discovered without a name and without icon when the files are mentioned in the display mode “Details”.

The same can also be done for a file: Resume a file, keep alto and write, using the numerical keyboard, 0160. But be careful, the files have an extension with which the system can recognize which type of file, as an image, text or others. If you rename a file by changing the extension, this is not linked to a program and if you do not remember what it is, it will be difficult to know how to open it. It would therefore be better to hide file extensions (in the map options) if you want to use this makeup.

AlternativeAnd Another smart way to make a folder invisible It is to place it in a busy parts of other folders (which is not under C:/Windows) and to give it a “system” name such as, for example, “Shellor Libs O shared Or what you want, as long as it is impossible to recognize for those who don’t know.

If, on the other hand, you want stronger and more protected methods, in another article Programs to hide folders and files on Windows and those for Protect folders with password