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The Best Tech Newsletter Anywhere Join , subscribers and get a daily digest of news, geek trivia, and our feature articles. Everything You Need to Know. You would have to create a new NTFS. SYS and possibly other low level drivers, in which case, as was posted - "Good luck with that one. Well I researched it on the net for a few hours as well as scanning my registry in an attempt to find out how that is possible. But the way you set explorer or whatever to show Hidden folders there is also a method to show super hidden folders or whaterver and I believe the term is hidden program folders in order to keep people from opening them and changing their contents so it doesnt affect applications.

Although I forgot what the actual name is you have to choose to show them. Anyhow this program will create your super hidden folder. It is done by using the command prompt and the attrib command. I would suppose that there is a Visual Basic alternative to doing it using the command prompt but I didn't want to spend any more time on this as what I've done is good enough for me. Although isn't there a way to launch the command prompt so it's hidden?

I forgot about that and I'm sure there is as a parameter used with process start for the command prompt to run as a hidden window or something. And there is probably a better method than using send keys to place data in the command prompt but I couldn't remember how that is done either. Also if you try creating a secret hidden folder directly on the desktop it displays its name and it displays its folder icon but the icon is real dim. In the folder I created on the desktop and inside it set the secret hidden folders attributes it doesn't show up at all.