@andsowouldi: Well personally, I don't have any pr0n on my computer, but I do keep my laptop locked down quite a bit. Anything I want to keep safe from other people usualy goes
A) Into a password-secured storage file
B) Magicked into a .gif file with that old dos copy trick
C) Onto the flash drive I carry in my pocket
or D) All of the above.

The Amazing Ant

Showing "hidden" files is one thing, showing "hidden/system" files is another...

I absolutely keep "hidden/system" files from displaying, so that nobody who gets on my computer (including me in a fit of stupidity) can delete NTUser.DAT or other files that can have you scrambling for your Acronis Recovery disk.

"Hidden" files I keep hidden in Explorer, so they don't clutter up things in normal use (who needs to see all those desktop.ini's or thumbs.db's), but can get to all of them with Xplorer2, which I have set to show everything. I use Explorer for normal running stuff and messing with data files, and Xplorer2 when I really need to manage the file system.

jsmorley

@andsowouldi

damn right, what else can we do with porn!

fusion324

@The Amazing Ant: You must be a either be a saint or secure your entire personal filesystem from others : ). I certainly have some files I want hidden at times.

andsowouldi

Virtual Basic. That about sums it up, heh.

elsifer

Very cool trick, although I'm not sure why I'd want to hide my hidden files and folders. Much as it defies their name, I prefer to have them shown all the time.

Nonetheless, still a cool trick. :)

The Amazing Ant

Anybody know how to do this easily with AutoHotKey?

turnersd

oh, this will help. i've been wanting something that did this for a while now.

origamimavin

@turnersd:

Its in the xplorer2 forum about 8 entries down.

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pschroeter

@turnersd: Yea I do: Install ac'tivAid, enable the extension "ExplorerHotkeys" and then in the Explorer hit Ctrl+H to toggle on/off hidden files. :] (pardon, you know I had to say that^^)

This ac'tivAid-extension also offers to toggle file extensions on/off, have tree view Toggle, detail, list, thumbview on hotkeys, as well as duplicate file, duplicate explorer window, reenables shift+Mousewheel for forward/backward (like in browsers) and very cool: offers to search in filenames on f3... check it out :D

Oh and something about the ones that have all files visible all time: I really used to have this as well! But I learned its much better to have it that way:
instead of that:

Hiding stuff you usually don't need declutters your workflow, frees you mind and enables you to really do stuff instead of looking for it.
For me its not just a security thing: It cleans and speeds up my everyday work!

ewerybody

@ewerybody:
Thanks ewerybody. For anybody that wants to do this with AutoHotKey I went through the ac'tivAid source and found the 10 line code snippet that toggles hidden files. it's here:

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turnersd

hellyea! cool! :] thats an option as well.
How do you trigger it then, have an extra Autohotkey script running for that? Or assembled them all in one Autohotkey-instance?

ewerybody

Windows 2000 compatibility, please.

Mrevilbobguy