Making Folders invisible:
1. First of all create a new folder.
2. Now highlight the folder and Click ‘F2′ button to rename it. Hold the ‘Alt’ key and type in 0160. Press Enter. You’ll notice that the folder will have no name.
3. The final step is to change the icon in order to make it invisible. Right click on the folder and go to Properties > Customize > Change the icon > Select the blank one (there are about three of them, choose any one) > Ok.
Making Shortcuts invisible:
1. Highlight the icon and Click ‘F2′ button to rename it. Hold the ‘Alt’ key and type in 0160. Press Enter. You’ll notice that the icon will have no name.
2. Right click on the shortcut and go to Properties > Shortcut > Change icon… > Select the blank one (there are about three of them, choose any one) > Ok.
Now unlike in folders you’ll notice that shortcuts have arrows which still don’t go off. You need to download a small tool- TweakUI in order to remove it.
3. Download TweakUI from here ( size:147KB) and install it.
4. Now start the program and go to Explorer> Shortcut> Shortcut overlay.
5. Select the shortcut overlay to ‘None’ then click ‘Ok’
6. That’s it now you’ll find your shortcut icon invisible.
If you can’t seem to get it right feel free to comment here, I’ll try my best to help you out.
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Great! Now I know! Thanks!
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Never really thought of doing this, but it could come in handy.
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Thanks Geoserv
when i hold down alt and type in 0610 and press enter nothing happens
I somehow did this to a whole folder: is there a way to undo it? All the sub folders names are hidden, and I don’t want them to be. Any clues would be great! Thanks
Great site, thanks for the post!! =)
is there anyway to remove those hidden folders?
Meh. If the person was really determined they could just select all (Ctrl + A), or drag a selection box across the entire folder space.