First go to your main hard drive. (This can be accomplished by going to My Computer, Double-clicking your main hard drive, which is usually C:\). Then create a new folder and name it one short word only. I suggest you name it "private" or something like that. Just keep it kinda short. Then just move all your "private" files into the new folder that you have just created. Then after you have moved all your old files into the new folder. Go back to the c:/ drive. (this can be accomplished by going to my computer again and double-clicking your main hard drive.) Then once it is open, goto "Start", "Run", the type in "command" without the quotes. A black ugly box should pop up and now you are going to have to perform the hardest part. (*gasp*)

You are going to have to type in:

rename foldername (hold down alt and enter 255)newname

Here is an example using a folder named private:
rename private (ALT+255)private

Make sure there is a space between rename and foldername and another space between foldername and ALT+255foldername. Those are the only spaces that are supposed be there.

Why do you have to hit ALT+255? Because this is a security hole that makes this whole exploit possible. You know how you can get special characters by typing in ALT + anumber to get different characters. Look, try hitting ALT+ 0169 anywhere you can type text and see what you get. See how you get this character: �
Pretty kewl huh? See, back in the day of DOS Alt+255 was nothing but a space. But then later on when Windows came out, some programmer someday changed it to where it would give you this character: _ . So you see, Windows is not programmed to see the ALT+255 from the DOS days, so if you name a folder in DOS with ALT+255, windows doesn't know what the hell that is so then it just says that it cannot open that folder. While all your files are safely stored inside. There is no way through windows to access that folder. Now, while no one is looking, you want to regain access to your *private* folder right?
Well you need to go to DOS again ("Start", "Run", type in "command" without the quotes.) and then make sure that you are just in C:\ . If it says something else like C:\windows or something like that then you need to enter the command: CD\ which will take you back to your main hard drive. ) And now you enter:

rename (ALT+255)foldername foldername

Using my example of the folder private you would enter:

rename (ALT+255)private private

You are just renaming it back to normal under DOS. Then you can just exit the DOS window and go through windows to access your private folder with your private files. Then when you are done using at your private files just repeat the steps you used to make it unaccessible to windows. Cool exploit huh? I think so. I find it useful.

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fine you happy and no this is not my work so shut up ok jeses i post some info that may be helpful for some little script kiddie and all i get is critisized fuck....


[This message has been edited by warweed12 (edited 08-04-2002).]

Or you could have just posted the link to <cough>your</cough> work. http://www.lameindustries.org/tutorials/hidfold/index.shtml

good point i could have posted a link but i did not claim it was my work now did i

You didnt say it wasnt. People would have assumed it was your work unless somebody had said something. Otherwise i could just go around stealing other peoples books and ideas, reproducing them and "not saying that they arnt mine" and everybody would love me. If you didnt create it you must give full credit to the creator... unless of course you have permission from "Cyrus."

when i copy and paste a novel and hand it to my english profesor he assumes it is my work and i thereby took credit for it. if you post a trick under your nick and dont cite the source then you have taken credit for it.

all technicalities aside i dont think that works in NT based windows. i could be wrong though.

Nope it doesn't work in NT based windows.

However it is still possible to access the directory in DOS by using cd ALT+255dir. If i remember way back to the good ol DOS days.

WHAT A BUTT-HEAD, he even uses "black ugly box" just like cyrus. And warweed is telling us that he didn't copy and paste!!?!

What a dumbass, warweed.

-=MaTrIXSpiirit=-

Besides I could have said it better and faster.----->

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Hiding a folder
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Through the DOS screen, rename a folder to (alt+255).

This wont allow any access to the folder, unless you rename it back to its original name or to another one.

-=MaTrIXSpiirit=-