Hiding files in Windows

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2 total messages Started by Thomas A Thu, 06 May 2004 08:01

#196

Author: Thomas A
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 08:01

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Does anyone know how to really hide files and directories in a Windows
OS - and I don't mean just changing the file property to "hidden". You
see - I have made an application that saves information to files but I
don't want these to be visible for the user when he checks "view
hidden files" in Explorer. I've seen some applications doing this so I
know it is possible.

Thanks
Thomas

Re: Hiding files in Windows

#197

Author: Tobias Sasse
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 20:40

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Thomas A <crexes@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know how to really hide files and directories in a Windows
> OS - and I don't mean just changing the file property to "hidden".

Some ways to hide files:
- Hooking Win32 API
- Hooking Native API
- Filtering file systems (FS Filter Driver)

See www.rohitab.com for an API hook example. See www.sysinternals.com
for Native API hooks and FS Filter Driver examples.

Tobias

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