Hiding a File
If you have a file that contains sensitive or secret data, making it read-only isn’t good enough because you probably don’t want unauthorized users to even see the contents of the file much less change them. To prevent other people from viewing a file, you can hide it so that it doesn’t appear during a cursory examination of the folder’s contents. Here are the steps to follow:
1. Use File Explorer to open the folder that contains the file you want to hide.
2. Click the file.
3. In the Home tab, click the top half of the Properties button. The file’s Properties dialog box appears.
4. Click the General tab.
5. Activate the Hidden check box, as shown in Figure 32.11.
Figure 32.11. Activate the Hidden check box to prevent a file from ...
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