Hide your drives

Hide your drives

Note: do it on your own risk.

• How to Hide the drives(c:,d:,e:,a:…etc) This is a great trick you can play on                                   your friends.  To disablethe display of local or networked drives when you                                        click MyComputer.

1.Go to start->run.Type regedit.Now go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

\Policies\Explorer

• Now in the right pane create a new DWORD item and name it                                                         NoDrives(it is case sensitive). 

• Now modify it’s value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) .

• Now restart your computer. So, now when you click on My 
  Computer, no drives will be shown(all gone…). 

• To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete this DWORD                                         item that you created.Again restart your computer.You can now see all the                                          drives again. Its cool Magic.

Protecting a folder using dos in windows98

Protecting a folder using dos in windows98

NOTE: do it on our own risk.

• The following method works for windows98

• with help of following method u can create folder that can not be accesed                                            from explorer , not even deletd .

• folder that cannot be accessed from the Windows Explorer: Open MS-DOS                                       prompt, type mkdir followed by a space, then hold ALT key and type 251. Then release ALT. 

• Now you can save there anything you want to hide. Windows 

  Explorer cannot display the content of this folder. You can 

  use these numbers instead of 251: 
  158, 159, 169, 176 to 224, 226 to 229, 231 to 240, 242 to 245, 

  247, 249, 252, 254 and 255.
  For me, only 176, 249, 251 and 254 worked. 

• To access this folder from windows,

just rename it into a normal name. To do so, 
open MS-DOS, enter the directory, 
where your folder is placed and type ren followed by a space, 

then hold alt and type the number, that you used when you created 

your folder. Press space again and then type the new name of your 

folder. Press enter.

• It's simple. Assuming ur file system is fat32 and u r using windows 98 second edition                           (i think it works in xp also). First go to the location using dos (either dos full mode or                           the ms-dos in windows start menu). Rename the folder using the ren command and                            rename it to ascii mode (with a secret code). U should not forget this code. No one else                        will can delete or open the folder.

Eg.: C:\ Games (this is the folder I've on my C drive)
I go to dos start->; programs ->; ms-dos 
dos window will open.
C:\ ren games Alt+158 (here we are renaming the games folder using the 

Alt key & a three digit number on the numpad (only numpad, it's 

important). U need to press the Alt key and the three digit code at a 

time. The code can be any three digit less than 255 (in my opinion) u can 

try Alt+164, Alt+176 etc. 

Ur folder is renamed & locked too at the same time

Now u won't see the games folder it'll be written in some ascii code 

Again to open the same go to dos and rename it using the ren command.

Eg: C\ ren Alt+158 games