Make Folder Invisible or hidden by ALT 0160 or ALT 255 on XP, Vista

May 28, 2008



To make any folder completely invisible or hidden, you need to do two things
1. Make the folder name invisible 2. Make the folder icon invisible. This method is applicable for Windows XP and Vista.

Step 1- Make folder name invisible

- Right click on folder that you want to be invisible or hidden, choose “rename” option. Erase the original folder name. (Cursor should be blinking in name field)
- Now hold down “ALT” key.
- While holding the ALT key type 0160 or 255 from right side number keypad.
- Now release ALT key.
You will see cursor will move 1 step. Now click ENTER.

- You will see folder name is invisible now.

Step-2 Make folder icon invisible.

- Now go on to the properties of the folder ( By right click ) and click “Customize”, and click “Change Icon”.

- Here you will find some icons without any kind of images, choose it and click OK.

Now your folder will be completely invisible. To locate the folder try to select the invisible folder by holding mouse and drag it around folder.

If you are still getting trouble, watch this video.

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    8 Responses to “Make Folder Invisible or hidden by ALT 0160 or ALT 255 on XP, Vista”

    1. Anonymous on June 5th, 2008 10:38 am

      Hello, when I changed to a blank icon, it appears as a black box. How can I make it appear “invisible”

    2. kp on June 23rd, 2008 11:20 pm

      hey bro how can i recover data from invisible and hidden folder and data both…..
      search bhi nahi ho paa raha hey…..
      any trick or tools for recover for that type of data
      pls help me serious trouble problem……..helppppppp

    3. lepakler on September 7th, 2008 2:32 pm

      hey, any idea on how to delete the folder after naming as such. Vista cant seem to delete the folder.

    4. Anonymous on September 13th, 2008 3:56 pm

      how to make invisible folder without numpad on laptop

    5. Anonymous on October 26th, 2008 12:23 am

      There is a way to delete them, just follow the steps in this article:

      http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/05/31/invisible-folders/

      I tried it, it really works.

    6. David on March 9th, 2009 8:21 am

      Anonymous on September 13th, 2008 3:56 pm
      how to make invisible folder without numpad on laptop….

      to enable numpad in laptop, click function key and numlock and it will enable the numpad.
      then you can go ahead do the alt +0160.

    7. shreyas on September 29th, 2009 4:32 pm

      you could even try various other number combinations to get various characters from the character map instead of a blank space…

      ex.(alt +)
      987- ?
      785- ?
      159- ƒ
      753- ±

      and many more

      you could even use them in passwords lol

    8. no one on February 25th, 2010 9:30 am

      nevermind ok so here is how you make it “invisible”
      to make it invisible ur personal files xD
      first rename ur folder name to a space
      then start>run type cmd
      then type attrib +s +h C:\
      ok so now the it is invisible if u want to see it again cahnge the “+” to “-”
      but u can quickly go to that folder but do not make it appear again by changing the address like C:\
      Good luck xD

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