Hide Your Personal Folder By Camouflaging as System Folder

We have already seen many post related to hiding data. Some of them were, Hide/Show Hidden File Extensions, Password Protect Your Photos, Lock any Files or Folder using code and many more. But today we will seeing something very creative. While googling, i found a tool which changes the icon of the folder to a System folder icon. This tool not only changes the icon but, if other user tries to open it, it will displays Windows Update Dialog box (depends on what you choose). Actually, this is one of the good option to hide your data like, Movies, songs, photos, etc from Admin team (for those who are working in offices and are not allowed to keep any personal data on PC/laptop, the one like me :))

The name of this tool is Disguise Folders. It is an freeware utility to hide folder by disguising them as system folder. This tools provides following icon that changes with the folder icon:

Action Center, Personalization, Power Options, Show Desktop, Fonts, Performance, Libraries, Recycle Bin, Display, System, Troubleshooting, Windows Update, Programs and Features, User Accounts, Notification Area, Homegroup.

Follow the steps below to disguise other users:

1. Download Disguise Folders from here.

2. Install and run it.
Note: Its a portable version, so you don't need to install it. Just run the .exe file. When you run it , it will look something like the image below.

3. Click on Disguise to browse and select the folder you want to camouflage. Say, you want to disguise "Personal" folder.

4. Then select the option you would like to hide the Personal folder as. Say, Homegroup.

5. Then hit the "Disguise Now" button.

6. You will see that, your "Personal" folder as turn into an "Homegroup" icon.

Now the users other than you will not be able to see the data inside the folder. What they are going to see is only the Windows Dialog Update box.

This were the steps to hide the data to disguise the people. Now following are the steps to recover your data.
You don't have to do anything different for this.

1. Open "Disguise Folders" and click on "Recover" button and browse the folder that you changed (disguise).

2. Click on the "Recover Now" button.

3. This will again turn the folder from "Homegroup" to "Personal" Folder

Download Disguise Folders here

I hope you understand all the steps well. I think the Admin team will never find this.
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