Hide Your Files
One interesting Windows tricks that i found while googling, using an image file to hide your zip/rar files. The image can be either jpg, png or bmp, but i wont recommend bmp as it will take a lot of space. You will see later that it is still an image file and can even be opened as an image, but to extract it, you will have to right click it , use ‘open with’ command and select Winzip/Winrar.
1.Find the the files that you want to hide, put them into a folder
2.Then select the folder , and zip/rar it by right clicking and selecting the add to archive in Winrar command.
3.Press “OK”
4.Find an image you want to be displayed when the JPG is opened normally, and place it in the same directory. example put it in C: drive
5.Open the command prompt (start menu > run > type CMD > press ok ).
6.Type this at the command prompt:
copy /b YOURIMAGE.ext + YOURARCHIVE.ext OUTPUT.ext
yourimage.ext is the image you selected (as example logo.jpg or logo.png)
yourarchive.ext is the folder you selected (as example forex.rar or forex.zip)
output.ext as example is the file name that is the resulting file. (as example mylogo.jpg)
7. If you do it correctly , you will see a new file in that directory using the name you selected as output. It is now an image file, but notice that the file is bigger than the original image file.
Well now you have a simple way but an added extra security to that files you want to hide.
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