How to hide files and folders in windows xp even when show hidden files and folders option is selected.

Here is a neat trick to hide your folders.

The best thing about this trick is that you can hide your personal data without the help of any third party software.

1)Go to run and type cmd and press enter.
2)create a folder where you want to save your files, for demonstration i have created a folder named test in D:\ directory.
3)Now go to that directory using the cd command and execute the following to hide the folder.

D:\attrib +s +h +r test

after this command nobody will be able to see your folder.

To make the folder appear again, execute the following command.

D:\attrib -s -h -r test

Note:

1) s means 'system'
2) h means 'hidden'
3) r means 'read-only'