How To Make Your Folders Invisible – Make Invisible Folders

How to make a folder without name and icon?

How do you avoid public access to your data? Hiding it? Well, this is most common thing that people do. But have you ever thought about making folders invisible? If you “make your folders invisible“, even after enabling show hidden files, your folders won’t be visible to anyone. Only you know where the folders are located, so only you can open those folders. This Tutorial shows how to make your folders invisible.

Making folders invisible doesn’t hide them, they are still there but you can’t see them. But whenever you hover mouse over them, you can see folder’s details. Even you can click on them in invisible state. Let’s Start.

How to make invisible folders?

Step 1

Right-click on the Desktop, choose New >> Folder to make a new folder.

Step 2

Now rename the folder and type a NULL character. You can type a null character by pressing and holding ALT key and type 0160. This null character counts for nothing and displays as space.

Step 3

Now you have a folder without a name. Half of the process is complete here. You have created a folder without a name, now you have to hide folder icon also.

Step 4

To hide folder icon, right click on the Folder -> Properties. Click on Customize tab and click on Change icon button.

Step 5

Scroll a bit, you should find some empty spaces, Click on any one of them. These are actually transparent folder icons. These will help us make folder icon transparent or invisible. Select any transparent icon and click on OK.

Step 6

That’s it. You are done here. Your folder is now invisible. You can’t see it but it is still there. You just need to know it’s location in order to find it. Whenever you hover over it, it shows folder details.

You have successfully created an invisible folder. Now you can store your personal data in this invisible folder without using any third party software. Enjoy! Don’t forget to comment.