Thursday, June 4, 2009

0 Disguise Folders As Recycle Bin

Have you ever tried to hide folders containing your private documents or having in appropriate contents from other people using your PC. In all probability each and everyone of you have at least tried it once .Now what do most people do ?

Just make the folder hidden. But guess you cant be sure that no one will be able to access it . The second option is installing a software like folder lock .But then most of these software comes with a 30 day trail. And you will have to store all the contents in one particular folder specified by the software you cant just hide any folder of your choice. And the presence of the software itself means that there is something that you want to hide. Any case it will make the other users all the more suspicious about what u want to hide. Here is the solution.



Rename any folder with extension {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
e.g.,
if you've a folder movies
press F2,
then type, "movies.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"
See the Result!!

Instead of the folder you'll see the recycle bin option ..and whoever clicks there is directed to recycle bin


Then to get to original form,
just rename the folder to anything else and remove the key.

Now let me tell you what is happening. As I told u I was trying to rename my Recycle Bin to “Arka’s dustbin” I tried to modify this key {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E. This is the recycle bin key ..after that I just copied the key to the folder name and whew. Even I was surprised by the result …..


**If you are not been able to get the folders to the original state after being renamed into 'Recycle Bin' by the above method.

Here is a solution

Go to command prompt and rename the folder there. 

Eg:- If the folder is in C:\Temp\ABC, then get to C:\Temp in the command prompt and type:
REN ABC.
{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} ABC
(Command Prompt supports CLIPBOARD. Copy-Paste will work there.)
Your folder will be back to normal state.

Note that this does not provide a reliable security to the data. It can be used just to prevent data from other novice users accessing your PC.

Many fake-folder software work by this method. You can also search the registry for more relevant keys like these.


**this method can be easily be cracked by any one having even an intermediate knowledge also there is no guarantee that data will remain as it is ..so don try it unless necessary

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