How to create an invisible folder in Windows 10

Windows 10

Our devices they are not usually used by a single person, but they are often the ones that pass through the hands of others to be able to play a game of Minecraft or leave a family member to watch videos while we are in the shower to go out for a walk. There are also the computers that belong to the family and for which we sometimes want to have some privacy, even though there are user accounts for each member.

Windows offers some privacy advantage to power hide folders or files. Although this possibility can be skipped by that user who knows the Windows system well and thus access those folders or files that are hidden in Windows. So the creation of an invisible folder becomes our best friend to be able to save all kinds of content and access it without anyone else knowing about its existence.

How to create an invisible folder in Windows 10

  • First of all, let's create unnamed folder
  • We click on any space on the desktop with the right button of the mouse and in the menu we select New> Folder
  • With the folder created and Windows waiting for us to give it a name, we press Alt and hold it while pressing 0160 on the numeric keyboard, we release the Alt key and press enter

Sin Nombre

  • The folder will be created without a name. Now we have to make it invisible with an icon. Right-click on it and click on Properties> Customize

Change icon

  • We look in the "Change icon" window and in the great variety of them, we select one that is invisible as shown in the image. We give «Apply» and ready
  • We will already have created the invisible folder that only you will know of its existence on your PC

Remember well the place where it is, since otherwise you will have to look for it. You have this entry to get more out of folders in Windows 10.


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