{"id":27394,"date":"2012-02-03T14:27:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T19:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=27394"},"modified":"2012-02-03T14:27:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T19:27:36","slug":"our-favorite-tips-quickly-hide-files-folders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/our-favorite-tips-quickly-hide-files-folders\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Favorite Tips: Quickly Hide Files &#038; Folders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcpitstop.com\/images\/newsletter\/winmend.gif\" alt=\"tip\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7652 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Quickly Hide Files &#038; Folders<\/h3>\n<p><em>Tip submitted by kburra<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WinMend quickly hides files &#038; folders on local partitions&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>WinMend Folder Hidden is a free file\/folder hiding tool. 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You can set a password for this application.<\/p>\n<p>Have tried a few other similar free applications, but this seems to be the best and does exactly what it says&#8230;.just download and install on your Thumb drive or External Hard drive,set a password and Hide one or multiple folders&#8230;.handy if have sensitive data on your thumb drive and lose it, at least you will know it cant be accessed, am not saying a super tech could not crack it, but for everyday use does the job .<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.winmend.com\/folder-hidden\/ \" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.winmend.com\/folder-hidden\/ <\/a><br \/>\n<\/br><\/br><\/p>\n<p>Check out our past favorites, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=27394\" target=\"_blank\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each month we select the best of the tips submitted by members of the PC Pitstop community through our <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.pcpitstop.com\/index.php?\/forum\/40-tips-n-tricks\/\" target=\"_blank\">forums.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tip_tt.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tips\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18914\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[4880],"class_list":["post-27394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips","tag-tips"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Our Favorite Tips: Quickly Hide Files &amp; 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