Geek 101

Privacy in this digital world is very important to us all. We have files on our hard drive that we don’t want anyone else knowing about. If you’re using a common PC used by the whole family, you can still maintain that privacy.

There are many ways to “hide” folders, but most require you to install software, which could then be spotted by someone. You could go and get encryption software but who wants to go through all that technical stuff. I want to show you a simple trick in Windows that you can use to actually hide files inside of JPG files!
You can hide any type of file including: txt, exe, avi, mp3, or any other file type. And you can hide as many files as you want under the same JPG file.

In order for you to be able to do this you’re going to need either Winzip or WinRAR. Search Google you will find them. Now follow these steps:


Create a new folder in your root directory and name it “test", C:\test

Now put all the files that you want to hide into that folder

In that “test” folder highlight and select the files you want to hide. Only select the files you want to hide, and not the picture file.

Right-click on them and choose the option to add them to a Zip or RAR file, and name it “secret.rar” or “secret.zip” depending on which compression you are using.
You should now have a folder that contains your original JPG file, your original files you wanted to hide, and the new “secret” compressed file.


Now this is where it gets a little tricky if you aren’t careful.

Open the command prompt by going to Start then Run and type in “CMD” without the quotes then press Enter.

The command prompt window should now be open.
Type in CD\ then hit Enter to get to the root directory of your hard drive

Type in CD and the directory name, in this case, CD test, then press Enter

Then type in copy /b IMG0001.jpg + secret.rar IMG0001.jpg

Make sure the file extension names are correct as you do have to type the entire file name with extension in the command. then press Enter

Also place the JPG file that you want to use into that same folder

That should be it! Your folder with all the files in it will look no different, but if you check the properties of the JPG file, you will see that the file size is bigger. It has increased by the same amount as the total size of the archive.

Now when you want to extract the files out of the JPG file just right click on it and Open With either WinRAR or WinZip.

So go ahead and hide all your porn so that your little sister doesn’t come across something and find out what DVDA stands for!