How To Encrypt Folders In Windows?

Do you want to encrypt folders in windows? Windows provides this feature by own, follow these simple steps:

• Select folder you want to encrypt & go to folder's properties.
• Click the Advanced tab.
• Check "Encrypt contents to secure data".
• Apply & then Okay.
• That's all.

How To Prevent Access To Your Personal / Financial Files In Windows?

Hi everyone! This trick will show you how to prevent access to personal files, follow these steps:

• Suppose you have a text file called “Example”.
• Go to Tools> Folder Options> Go to View Tab.
• Uncheck the option “Hide Extensions for Known File Types”.
• This action will display the extensions of filese in the computer.
• Click Apply and OK.
• The file “Example” will be displayed as “Example.txt”.
• Rename the file from “Example.doc” to “Example.aaa”.
• You can give any file name and any extension instead of “.aaa” but ensure that the extension is not associated with any other program.
• The Computer will ask you for confirmation.
• Click Yes.
• The file icon will change now.
• Your file is in-accessible now.

For viewing back the file:

• Open the program in which the file can be view. In the above example, open notepad.
• Drag the file to the notepad.
• That's all.
• OR change back the extension to ".txt".

Add Folders To Taskbar In Windows

Do you have any folder to which you use often? Like folder containing music or softwares. Every time you would have to open My Computer & then have to go in specific directory for it. It's more time consuming as you can easily access these folders by adding them to taskbar. Follow these steps for adding folders to taskbar:

• Check whether Taskbar is Lock or not.
• Right-click on the Taskbar, select Toolbars, and then click New Toolbar.
• Click on Make New Folder.
• Choose which folder you want to place in taskbar.
• That's all.

Check Properties Of Any Folder Quickly

Hello friends!! In this post I will tell about two ways for checking properties of folders.

First is (common way):

• Right click on folder & choose Properties.

Second is (quicker way):

• Press & Hold Alt key & double click on folder.

Note: You can also use the combination of Alt+Enter keys while selecting any folder.

Solve Hidden Files & Folders Not Showing

Sometimes you may have gone through this typical problem "Hidden Files & Folders Not Showing". It happens because of missing some windows files. So here's a way to solve this problem. Follow these simple steps:

• Go to start> run> Type cmd
• In command prompt, type regsvr32 /i browseui.dll
• Wait for confirmation window.
• Now type regsvr32 /i shell32.dll
• Again wait for confirmation window.
• That's all.

Hide Folders & Files Using CMD

In this post, I'm gonna tell about hiding folders & files using cmd, follow these simple steps:

• Go to start> run> Type cmd
• In command prompt, type attrib "file path" +r +s +h  for e.g. attrib "C:\media\pics" +r +s +h
• That's all.

To unhidden the files just replace command's + sign with - sign.