How to Hide a Folder in 30 Seconds


	How to Hide a Folder in 30 Seconds

Rashid Malik

10-28-2008 9:25 AM

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Rashid Malik says:

Cool and clever.

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10-28-2008 9:59 AM

balthazarus

10-28-2008 11:10 AM

bignosemousie

I would totally forget it was there.

10-28-2008 12:16 PM

The REAL Napster

I would not suggest this for any level of access other than a GUI. If you inadvertantly have to do some command line restore operations, typing in strange characters from a command prompt is never fun.

10-29-2008 5:29 AM

Rashid Malik

Thanks balthazarus!

3-20-2009 6:19 PM

Anangeli

How do you make it appear again??????

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