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'Hiding' folders
Edgie
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So, this question is uh.. for a friend. Said friend has relatives coming over and staying in his room. These relatives aren't the kind of relatives you'd tell not to use your computer. Now, this computer has a folder with.. uh, ballet dance lessons he wishes to hide. Any programs out there that could make the directory invisible or some such?
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Burn your hardcore interracial monkey-rape porn onto a CD, delete the folder, and stash the CD somewhere till after they've gone?
Just delete it full stop, and rebuild your collection from scratch at a later date?
For example, stick the whole folder one or two levels inside your windows folder, or at the root of your C drive.
Then, all you have to do is make sure that when you're done "appreciating," you clear the recent documents folder (Start -> Settings -> Taskbar and Start menu -> Start Menu -> Customise -> Clear), so they don't show up in the start bar.
You could also put the whole lot in an archive and password it. Winzip does this, I'm fairly sure.
Alternatively, rename the folder to something innocent and place it in some far away folder, if you suspect these relatives to go digging through your "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB"-folder (example) you could even protect the map with a password.
Oh, and don't forget to rename your individual files to something less obvious, siblings are prone to ctrl-F for "porn" :P I know I do.
Unless you think they would do that then that should be enough. Also, hide your porn somewhere good. Like in a program folder.
Anyway yeah, they're decently hidden. I swear I remember some kind of program that would make folders invisible or some such, and they could only be seen if you booted the program up and entered a password.
Just pray no one goes into search and looks for "funny" movies.
You can of course set the folder privileges (on an NTFS partition) to only allow access to the administrator and then use a normal-user account for that time.
It's a bit extreme, but there are also some programs that will make a whole passworded and encrypted partition on your drive. Some of them also work for single folders. Be aware that if you're trying to hide something illegal some countries require you by law to give the password if you are investigated by the police (ie. you would still be guilty of breaking that law even if they don't see your plans to assassinate the queen).
A passworded archive is a good solution, as the contents won't be shown during a virus scan, for example. Just chose the "store" compression method.
*I'm not sure where exactly it is under XP, as I can't check it right now. It should be somewhere in C:\Documents and Settings\<your username> and I guess maybe further under Application Data (might be hidden) \ Microsoft?
Under win98 it was in the windows folder IIRC.
At night, the ice weasels come."
EDIT: I type slow. Now its two post above.
Of course, that doesn't work on my computer because I broke the registry for the Windows built-in search wizard or whatever years ago.
And it's not even *just* to get pr0n out of the logs, I swear.
Right click on the start menu, select properties, under the start menu tab click the first customize buttom. Now click the advanced tab. It should be right down at the bottem of the window saying "recent documents".
At night, the ice weasels come."
I really don't remember, I configured all this shit years ago and haven't messed with it since.
Also, if you're concerned about the recent history of your video players, you can flush it out with other videos, and maybe codename your porn in the future so it doesn't look suspicious. That's probably overkill though unless your brother is actually going to be looking for evidence of porn on your computer.
it creates a file.. or something that is pretty useless until you mount it with the program and then it acts as another hard drive. i dont try to understand this program but its pretty easy and hides everything you put into the file. oh and its password protected. so theyd have to find the program, find the file and then figure out the password to mount it
http://www.truecrypt.org/
its pretty simple to use. i got it working in a couple of minutes and im far from tech savvy
isnt there some way to make media available to only a single user account?
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Your relatives have no need for administrator access on your computer, and if you don't have the balls to tell them that then you need to grow a pair.
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Mcdermont beat me to it.
Thanks for the help.
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- Placing said folder in obscure location
- Hiding folder and then choosing the setting to not display Hidden or System files/folders
- Zipping up the folder (possibly with a password); and as a note to this, if you're so inclined, you can rename the file and extension to something obscure as well. Like, when winrar archives files, it temporarily gives it a random name and a random extension from what I've noticed.
- Laying it out on the desktop for the world to see and admire.
Though, for the most part, there has been a lack of programs mentioned. I for one highly suggest Magic Folders. I personally used it back in middle school, you know, to hide my man essence. My friend used it to hide his games because his parents were just like that :? . It basically hides the folder from Windows Explorer completely, however, there's a multitude of ways to break said program and reveal folder, but your guests should be polite enough not to break your installed applications. And the program itself is easy enough to hide, just remove it from your start menu, desktop, quicklaunch, etc. Your guests also shouldn't be in your Program Files folder in the first place unless they really do want to find your man essence.
Oh, it's shareware, but I'm sure you can find...uh, a full version? Or buy one too, it is a pretty nifty program.
Unless you feel like watching porn it's considered bad manners to explore someones directory just for the sole reason of watching porn.
So another suggestion is don't worry about it, as long as there isn't anything containing goats or your brother's wife, I doubt there is anything in there that he'd get upset over.
Satans..... hints.....
I see your point, alot of guys do have porn on their computers and its a good bet so does his brother. But maybe he is embaresd by the type of porn he has. Just for example, he has a fetish for giraffes but doesnt want his family to know.
I think this idea works the best.
Assuming that A) you're not ridiculously young to be having a "ballet dance lesson" collection,
To wit, take your brother aside when he gets home, and say something to the effect of, "Hey, I'm a young guy, and like most guys, I am developing a fascination with ballet dancing. I have a modest collection of ballet on my computer, and I would appreciate it if you and the missus just pretended it wasn't there, OK? Thanks."
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Anything on your account's desktop (and any subdirs of that desktop), as long as it's passworded, is not viewable by other accounts. Make a limited account for Guests. Done.
This way you can have a "Porn" directory on your desktop AND NOBODY CAN STOP YOU.
Seconding this, if you're ultra-paranoid.
Encrypt it with something serious, like PGP (or GPG if you're not using Windows).
There is no step three.
PGP is sufficient to keep the FBI out of your porn, it can goddamn well work on your in-laws or whatever.
note: always compress before encrypting, not after.