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Learn A Few Easy Ways To Hide Folders In Windows

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It is very much important to protect your privacy and which is also a difficult task these days if you are sharing your computer or laptop whichever device you use with someone else like your colleagues or friends. There arises the need to secure your files in a safe place. So, we are here to help you know the various methods using which you can hide folders in your Windows PCs or laptops.

 Hide Folders:

  • Open File Explorer, then click on Tools>Folder Options
  • Then in the Folder options window switch to the View tab
  • Then under the option Files and Folders, select Hidden Files and Folders and then check the radio button with the option don’t show hidden files, folders or drives and click on ok
  • Then head back to the file explorer and select the particular file that you wish to hide and right-click on it and from the pop-up menu select properties
  • Then in the properties, make sure you check the hidden option in the general tab

You can access the files by temporarily making the hidden folders visible under folder options.

Make Folders Invisible:

This is yet another method that helps you in making the folder invisible rather than just hiding it.

  • As a first step you need to hide the name of the folder that you would want to make invisible, just select the folder and press F2, then while holding the ALT key type 0160 and press enter
  • In the next step, you need to make the folder invisible, right-click and select the properties of the folder and switch to the customize tab and click on the change icon. Choose a blank icon and click ok

 Hide Folders With A Tool:

There are many useful tools that will allow you to hide your various folders in Windows. My Lockbox is one such tool that you can try using to hide your folders. But unfortunately, the free version of the tool will allow you to secure only one folder at a time. You can change the folder from time to time as you wish.

Creating Custom Desktop Icons On Your Windows PC

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Many of us might have got bored of the same old regular icons on our computer screens in our Windows devices. Don’t you ever want to try something new? Now, in this article today we are going to learn about creating custom desktop icons in your PC.

Creating Custom Desktop Icons

Rainmeter , the best customization tool for Windows is very good at creating custom icons for your programs. The icons range from immersive to regular. The best thing about this program is that there are already some fan-made icons available which you can make use of.

Rainmeter settings are text-based since it is necessary and important for you to learn the creation process of icons before you start downloading and installing icon packs, the more you learn, the better and more customized you will become.
Now let us see the process of creating a simple icon with this wonderful program

• Head to the C:\Users\[PC Name]\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins, the PC Name should be replaced with the name of your PC
• Right-click on a blank space and click on New, and then click on Folder
• Now name the folder that you have created, that it should represent the contents
• Now, after creating, just double click the folder and create another folder within it, name the folder with the name of the icon that you wish to create
• Then create another folder within it and name it @resources, this folder will hold your icon images

You have created three folders overall

• Now double click the second folder and right-click on the blank space and click on New, and then on Text documents
• Now open the text document created by double-clicking on it and just copy-paste the following thing

[OverwatchIcon]
Meter=Image
ImageName=#@#\[IconName].png
H=[Height]
LeftMouseUpAction=[“[Address]”]
[Rainmeter]
Update=1000

• IconName should be replaced with the name of the PNG file that you should be using for your icon
• Height for changing the size of your icon
• The address should be replaced with the address of your program or a website address
• Now go to the @Resources folder and paste your PNG file which you would like to use as an icon
• Then replace that PNG file with the parameter you have entered for the IconName
• Now replace the Height parameter in your INI file with the size of the icon

You are now done with creating the icon, let us now learn how to place it on the desktop

• Now just right click on the welcome to Rainmeter window and then click on Rainmeter and then click on Manage
• You can see a window open, you can see your created icon under active skins option
• Select the folder that you have created earlier and double click on the INI file, that is it you will see the skin on your desktop

This process may seem a bit long and may need a bit of mind into it, but remember that this will your Windows PC a new look and you must definitely give it a try and create your custom desktop icons.

Learn How To Clean Your Computer’s Right Click Menu

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The thing or the window that pops up when you right click on something in windows is known as the context menu. This menu opens when you right click on something anywhere on your desktop or even inside the windows explorer. As we keep on installing new softwares, the vendors add useless options to the menu which will make the menu very confusing and clumsy as well.

Sorting Out Your Computer’s Right-Click Menu

Who doesn’t love a shortcut? Thanks to the guy who programmed in the right-click menu, we get to take some of them while working or browsing on the computer.

Luckily, we have a few options to edit the menu with the help of some tools. There are a few popular tools available on the internet. The tools include ShellExView, Context Menu editor, FileMenu Tools of which the first tool is a bit complicated and will be difficult to use for the regular PC users,

Using these very simple menu editors, you can easily remove any of the options that you don’t like to have there. FileMenu Tools can be useful to edit the menu that you can remove the unwanted options and get them back if you feel they are needed but the other two tools don’t have this getting back option.

All you have to do is just run the downloaded tools as an administrator as they make changes to your windows registry. The choice of decking up your right-click menu depends on the kind of power you want to give it. But it’s a certainty that you will be spoilt for choice with the free software available.

So, if you also feel your right click window has a lot of useless and unwanted options, then do try these tools and sort it as you like.

How to change the mouse cursor icon appearance in Windows

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The main important thing on the screen of your PC while you work, surf the web or do something is the cursor which represents your mouse movements on the screen. Have you ever felt bored of seeing the same routine cursor all the time? Don’t worry, there is actually a very simple process using which you can change your cursor icon, now come lets go through that

• Just type Change how the mouse pointer looks in the Search bar of the Windows and press enter
• You will see the search results with two options select the Change how the mouse pointer looks option and press enter to open it
• Now you will see the window open, click on the properties window
• Under the tab you will see customize section, where you need to select the mouse pointer that you wish to change, and then click on browse
• Then you can see a window with all the various cursor icons available on your PC
• Select one icon that wish to use as a replacement for the one you select earlier, and click on open
• Now, finally click on apply and then on Ok to save the changes
You can thus change the appearance of the various cursor icons you wish on your Windows PC with these simple steps.

 

How to automatically lock your Windows computer when you are away from it

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It is very much important or even safe to lock your computer when you are not in front of it. As you may have a lot of personal and very important information, you can’t give a chance to anyone to play their tricks. With Windows 10 Microsoft added a Dynamic lock feature that works by pairing your phone to the PC using Bluetooth and will automatically lock the computer when you step away from it.

But don’t worry if you are still using the old operating systems of Microsoft like the Windows 7 or 8.1, then don’t worry, there is a software program to help you. A locked PC is a safe PC.

Go through the link below to get that software on your PC

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Bluelock.shtml

The application is called Bluelock which is a very simple tool that has been there for many years. For this, your system should have Bluetooth and you should have your phone always handy. After you download the application from the above link, just open it. Turn Bluetooth on on both your PC and Phone, then it will list your device in the Discovered Bluetooth Devices window. Double click on it to make your phone the lock to your PC. Adjust the time slider to your required time after which you would like to lock the PC. That means once you are away for that particular period of time, it will be locked.

So, do try this simple application to experience some safety and security.