Do you have some computer files that you need to hide? Have you been storing information on your computer that you wouldn’t like people to access easily? It’s very easy to make documents and spreadsheets password protected but when it comes to images and video files, it becomes a bit difficult to hide them.
Suppose you’ve been downloading naughty images and videos from the Internet and you would like to keep them on your computer, yet hidden from your spouse and kids (or parents, or siblings). The old method is to hide them in a folder that is deep inside an array of other folders, something like C:f1f2f3f4the-naughty-file. To add more camouflage you can even change the name of the file.
But this is not a safe way to hide your computer files. Modern operating systems these days make it very easy to find all sorts of files on your hard drive. The best way to hide you computer files is to encrypt them, but foolproof encryption facility doesn’t come with every operating system.
So what do you do? There is a very simple way out. Compression utilities like WinZip and 7Zip allow you to password protect your compressed files. All you have to do is, move all the computer files you want to hide to a particular folder. Then you compress that folder and while compressing it, encrypt it with a password. When the compression is done, delete the original files. You can also make settings that if someone views the contents of the compressed files even the names of the files don’t show up.
This doesn’t mean your computer files are totally safe now. But it takes a very advanced or expensive technology to excess your files now.
