Make an Invisible Folder in Windows

You can create an Invisible folder in Windows by naming it with a blank space and changing its icon to transparent.

 Follow these Steps:

• Right click on desktop>New>Folder
• Rename it as “ALT + 0160” (means enter the sequence '0160' with ALT key pressed)
• You will notice that a blank space is used for naming the folder.
• Now right click on folder>properties>Customize>change icon…
• Choose a blank icon and click on OK.
• Your invisible folder is ready to work. 

Customize it further to protect it further by changing it to hidden folder.

• Right click on folder>properties>hidden
• click on OK.

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Add Image to Folder Background in WinXP

In this tutorial , we will see how to add an image to the background of any folder. It looks like this

1) Create New Folder; right click on Desktop, then New folder... or just open a folder in which you wish to add the background image

2) Copy this code in notepad

[ExtShellFolderViews]{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}={BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]IconArea_Image=(image location eg: c:\background.jpg)

it will look like this.

3)Save the notepad file in folder for which you wish to add background image as "desktop.ini"

4)After this select folder, right click on that folder, click properties and select Customize tab, then click on change icon, here choose any icon, click apply and OK.
After this the background image will appear...

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