Hide Data in notepad

It is a pretty unknown trick to create hidden text files using nothing but Notepad.The text files created using the method below won't show anywhere in DOS or Windows irrespective of the hidden and system display file-settings, the files created using this can only be accessed if you know the correct file-name used while creating the file. Just follow these steps to hide the data :

1. Launch Windows command prompt from Start Menu -> Run -> Type cmd and press Enter.
2. Using DOS commands navigate to the desired folder.
3. Now, type notepad VisibleFile.txt:HiddenFile.txt and hit Enter, you can change VisibleFile.txt and HiddenFile.txt to names of your choice , You will be prompted to Create a New file click Yes.
4. Now enter data you want to hide, save the file and close notepad.
5. Visit the file-save location, you will see your VisibleFile.txt file (non-hidden) there, you can open the file and enter any text of your choice as any other normal text file.
6. The hidden file HiddenFile.txt will not be visible under Windows Explorer or DOS.
7. To open and read/write your hidden file, type in the command notepad VisibleFile.txt:HiddenFile.txt (change filenames with your own used during Step 3 above) at DOS command prompt and hit Enter.

PS : If the visible file (VisibleFile.txt) is deleted your hidden file (HiddenFile.txt) will also get deleted.

Encrypt or Hide Your HTML Source Code

When almost everything on Internet is susceptible to theft, why don't we think of encrypting our .html files of our websites. Although our blog may not be having something of national importance but, certainly you will not like to get our content stolen by others.

The easiest way through which thieves can take away and use your content is by checking the 'source code' of your blog and copying it.

Now see these two codes:

1. A simple hyperlink;

    

    

2. Highly encrypted javascript code;

If you use any of the two codes above, the result will be the same, while the 'source code' will be completely different and totally alien to most of the users to understand.

Here's the tool to do similar encryption of any HTML code and not only simple hyperlinks:

HTML Encryption - iwebtool

How to hide a .rar file into a .jpg file ??

1. Go to Start->Run

2. Type 'cmd' and hit enter button

3. Command prompt will be opened within a second. Now navigate to the place where you kept the .rar file and .jpg file. The command is :

cd path (Where the path is destination of the .rar and .jpeg file)

4. Now, in the command prompt window type Copy /b x.jpg + y.rar output.jpg

Where, x is name of the image file, y is the rar file name, and output is the desired image file name.

5. Double click on the output.jpg, it will open the image as it was in x.jpg and y.rar will be hidden in output.jpg file.

6. Now, if you want to see the contents of y.rar, open the output.jpg with Winrar application. Try this out on your own.

How to hide a drive in Miscrosoft Windows XP ?

1. From the Start Menu, Click Run..

2. In the 'Run..' dialog box, type 'diskpart'.

3. Click 'OK'. A Command Prompt window will open named Microsoft DiskPart version 1.x.xxxx

4. 'DISKPART>' will be displayed in the command window. Now type 'list volume'. It will list all the volumes

5. After DISKPART>, select the volume number of the drive whose letter you want to hide. Your program should look like this:-

DISKPART> select volume x

Where, 'x' is the number of the volume you want to hide.

6. Hit enter. A message displays:-

DISKPART> select volume x
Volume x is the selected volume
DISKPART>

6. In the next Command Line, type 'remove letter y' if Y: is your drive-letter. Hit enter. You get a message saying that Letter y has been removed.

DISKPART> select volume x

Volume x is the selected volume

DISKPART> remove letter y  [Hit enter]

Letter y removed.

DISKPART>

Open 'My Computer' and observe. Drive Y: will no longer be visible and you won't be able to access any data on it and nor will anyone else. It is a useful way of hiding secret data.

7. Now to view the drive type 'DISKPART> assign letter y