How To Hide a Folder in Window 7

To secure our important documents,images,videos,pictures and other stuff from other users of our PC we usually need a simple way to protect these stuff.The one way to that is to simply create the folder and put  files in it and then hide this folder from the computer.This folder can be unhide by the other users but to make it more secure you have to place this folder somewhere else in the other folders where other users cannot find it.

HOW TO HIDE THE FOLDER

1 Right click on the folder and then select the properties.

2 Mark the hidden option in general category then press apply and ok.

3 Click on the organize option at the top panel and then select folder and search options.

4 Go to view category and select "don't show hidden files and folders" then press apply and ok.

If you want to unhide the folder then again from the" folder and search options" select "show hidden files and folders".

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