How to hide data in notepad

Do you have some data which you want to hide from everyone? Some confidential stuffs or list of your passwords? In this post I am going to tell you about a simple method to hide all your data in a notepad or .txt file.

Here is how to do this:

• Open command prompt, (write cmd.exe in search box and hit enter)
• now type cd desktop ( as I am using my desktop for creating that file, you can use any drive depending upon your choice, it should better have a NTFS file system for this trick to work properly )
• Now let us choose the file name as abc.
• Write notepad abc.txt: hidden exactly in the command prompt. ( abc is the name of the file, you can choose any name of your choice )

 

 

• A window will appear asking you if you want to create a notepad file with name abc.txt click yes.
• Now the notepad file will open up, just put in all your data and save the file by either file>save or ctrl + s.
• Now, if you go to the specified directory and will open the file you will find nothing written inside it. So, then how to view the content.
• Just open the cmd.exe type the exact previous command notepad abc.txt: hidden. Now the notepad will open up with all your data.