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From: Ed Mulroy [TeamB]
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 14:17

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You won't be able to hide it.  The best you can do is to make it difficult
to see.

Internet Explorer uses a hidden attribute setting for its private
directories.  I don't know if this requires low level techniques.  You might
try SetFileAttributes to make a directory hidden.

For some directories it obfuscates the directory name to a random
alpha-numeric, something difficult for a person to copy.


.  Ed

> Fernando wrote in message
> news:q2p0tvc8cjocpcu0csse0s6dto7shgqff9@4ax.com...
>
> What's the best way to have a directory as hidden as
> possible in ntfs and FAT32?
>
> Somethingas the 'System volume information' directory....

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