{"id":1176,"date":"2007-10-18T15:48:38","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T20:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/windows-tutorials\/hiding-files-by-making-them-system-files-how-to-access-them-too"},"modified":"2012-03-30T23:42:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T03:42:14","slug":"hiding-files-by-making-them-system-files-how-to-access-them-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/windows-tutorials\/hiding-files-by-making-them-system-files-how-to-access-them-too","title":{"rendered":"Hiding Files by Making them System Files (How To Access Them too)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have some files and\/or folders that you would like to be hidden, this tutorial will show you how to mark them as system files so that they will only be displayed when the options to show system files is enabled. First we will look where this option is checked at. Also, keep in mind that you can access system files without enabling the view by simply typing the path into the address bar. For starters, lets make sure our computer is set to hide system files.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/making_system_files_01.JPG\" alt=\"making_system_files_01\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Start by opening any folder that you would like. At the top of the window, click on tools and select Folder Options.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/making_system_files_02.JPG\" alt=\"making_system_files_02\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the main folder options window. At the top of the window you see all the tabs we have to choose from to configure more options. Select the View tab.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/making_system_files_03.JPG\" alt=\"making_system_files_03\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the view tab you will see a whole lot of options in the lower scroll box. Scroll down until you see an option that says \u201cHide Protected Operating System Files (Recommended)\u201d. If it is checked it is hiding those files, which is what we want.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/making_system_files_04.JPG\" alt=\"making_system_files_04\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next create a folder on your desktop.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/making_system_files_05.JPG\" alt=\"making_system_files_05\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Name the folder \u201csystem\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/making_system_files_06.JPG\" alt=\"making_system_files_06\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click on Start and select \u201cRun\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/making_system_files_07.JPG\" alt=\"making_system_files_07\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Type CMD into the run box that comes up.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/making_system_files_08.JPG\" alt=\"making_system_files_08\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This will launch the above pictured command prompt window. Now we need to get to our directory. Type \u201ccd C:\\Documents and Settings\\*USERNAME*\\Desktop\u201d without the quotes (where *USERNAME* is what you are logged onto the machine as.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/making_system_files_09.JPG\" alt=\"making_system_files_09\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You command prompt should now look like this^^.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/making_system_files_10.JPG\" alt=\"making_system_files_10\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Type \u201cDIR\u201d (Again, without the quotes) and you should see all the contents of your desktop appear in the window. You should be able to locate our \u201csystem\u201d folder that we created.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/making_system_files_11.JPG\" alt=\"making_system_files_11\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Take a second to create a coupe of files within the folder we created. Name them anything you would like.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/making_system_files_12.JPG\" alt=\"making_system_files_12\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My files in the folder.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/making_system_files_13.JPG\" alt=\"making_system_files_13\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now back to our command prompt window. Type in \u201cattrib +h +s system\u201d This command will make our \u201csystem\u201d folder hidden as well as a system folder. It will disappear from the desktop.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/making_system_files_14.JPG\" alt=\"making_system_files_14\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you run the command \u201cDIR\u201d again, you will also notice, that it has disappeared from the desktop in the command prompt window as well. Well, if I can\u2019t get to it, how can I get the files from it. Since we know where we put the file, which in this case the path would be: C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\Desktop\\system, we can access the file directly by doing the following.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/making_system_files_15.JPG\" alt=\"making_system_files_15\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Open my computer.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/making_system_files_16.JPG\" alt=\"making_system_files_16\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Type in the path of the folder<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/making_system_files_17.JPG\" alt=\"making_system_files_17\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once you press enter, it will take you to your folder and you will be able to see the contents of the folder while it is still hidden. You can see the files that we created in the beginning. This concludes this tutorial. I hope it was easy to follow and thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have some files and\/or folders that you would like to be hidden, this tutorial will show you how to mark them as system files so that they will only be displayed when the options to show system files is enabled. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,12],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hiding Files by Making them System Files (How To Access Them too)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you have some files and\/or folders that you would like to be hidden, this tutorial will show you how to mark them as system files so that they will only be displayed when the options to show system files is enabled.\" 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