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Its tough to hide files in your computer especially if you have some intelligent users using the same system. Most of the times you either try hiding the file but its of no avail since you can’t guarantee it’s safety. Or you try softwares which also can be detected by simply looking around. So how do you do it? This neat trick is unusual but I think its ten times better than the ones you have tried.

Advantage of this method is that you can store a lot of files inside a single JPEG file. Files of MP3, TXT, AVI can be easily hidden inside a JPEG file. This method is very useful for people who want nothing to do with encryption, softwares etc.

You will need a zip archive application like WinZip or WinRAR. Lets start then:

1. Create a Folder called Test on your hard drive. Place all the files you are going to hide in the folder and also the particular JPEG file.

2. Select all the files you want to hide and right click on one of them. Now select to compress them as a ZIP or a RAR archive and name it Hidden. Remember NOT to select the JPEG file.

3. You should be able to see a compressed archive now.

4. Now goto Start > Run. Type CMD in the box and hit Enter.

5. Type CD \ to get to the root directory. Next type CD Test

6. Follow carefully now. Type the following and hit Enter.

copy /b YOURIMAGENAME.JPG + Hidden.rar(or)zip YOURIMAGENAMEAGAIN.jpg

Thats it! As simple as that. You can open these files by renaming the file extension to RAR(or)ZIP and open it with a respective application. You can also open it up by right clicking the file and clicking Open Wiht > WinRAR (or) WinZip.

This is one nifty trick if you don’t want to share your files with other people.

Pushkar