1 Hide text file behind a text file

Here is an example to hide text file behind a text file.


Create a text file using Command Prompt.

• Go to Run, type cmd. Change the directory if you want.
• Type echo visit etricks.in for cool computer tricks > etricks.txt:hidden
• Here hidden is alternate data stream created along with etricks.txt

To enter data using that hidden data stream type.

• notepad etricks.txt:hidden
• You will see a popup saying “Cannot find the C:\etricks.txt:Hidden.txt file”. Do you want to create a new file?”.
• click yes.

Type anything you want and press ctrl+s.

Now go to C drive. There won’t be any such file. You will see etricks.txt only.

To view data in hidden file go to cmd and type.

• notepad etricks.txt:hidden

and now you can see the data in etricks.txt:hidden.txt