How to Lock a folder and redirect it to Control Panel

We often keep some private materials which others should not see at the home PC. How can we hide it from others praying eyes. Its very simple and effective. We can redirect the folder to "Control Panel" of "My Documents" whenever any one clicks on them. 

Follow the procedure :

1. Lets assume you have a folder in drive D names Personal.
2. Now rename this folder to "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
3. Anyone clicking on this will be redirected to control panel instead of your folder. So the files remain invisible to others.
4. Some more options are given below which you can use according to your choice.

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How to hide stuff in CDs and DVDs

Many a times you might have wished certain stuff on your CDs and DVDs were private and accessible only to you and no one else. While you could achieve this using WinRAR or any other archiving software that can encrypt your data, it doesn't allow for quick access to the data as you need to decrypt and extract the stuff first. While this might not be much of a problem for a small amount of data, you might get into trouble when you’ve got gigabytes of ones and zeroes to hide. Now I know that for all legitimate purposes your stash of hidden data would never really get this extensive, but the keyword here is ‘legit’. What about the skeletons in your closet? (Read: porn) They need to go somewhere too, right? And you need a much larger cache for them. You *could* just take a hike and encrypt those files anyway but since questionable content has a tendency to amass gigabytes of space, you might get into some serious trouble while extracting the stuff; not to mention about the overhead associated with decryption. Your processor wouldn't be so happy about it.

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