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Create folders (almost) invisible!

Here's a little trick that, if not necessarily very helpful, very nice! In fact, it lets you create a folder invisible using an ASCII character unknown.

Start by creating a new folder on your desktop (right-click, New, Folder).

Then rename the file by typing the ALT and 0160. Character appear invisible. Some thought it was easier to type a space, but Windows prohibits the creation of a composite name just a space.

So here we are now with a record that has no name but has an icon preventing obviously make it invisible. We'll replace the default icon by another totally transparent.

Then make a right click on the folder, choose Properties and then the Customize tab and then click the Change Icon button. ... In the search field, enter (if not already done by default) % Systemroot% \\ system32 \\ SHELL32.dll icon and select an "empty". Finally, confirm.

If no icon is given transparent, you can download it (right click on the link and choose Save Target As ... to download the icon). Back up to disk and then specify its full path in the search field.


Here is your invisible folder created: o) To find this folder, just make a big selection box across the desktop and you will see your character "invisible" selected!

course, this trick also works in Windows Explorer. In this case, the file invisible to readily recognize the free space it will leave in the list of files and folders.