Friday, November 4, 2016

Hide your data in notepad


Do you know that you can hide your data in notepad?

Wont it be cool if only you could see your secret data in notepad file and others see different data on opening same notepad file

How to do it:

1) Open your command prompt

2) Point it to the location where you want to place your notepad file

3) Now on command line, type below:

 notepad NormalFile.txt:SecretFile.txt  

4) Notepad opens up with a dialog box asking to create new file. Press Yes and Write your secret data in the notepad.

5) Save the file and close it. Observe that it is saved with name NormalFile.txt

6) Now if anyone opens the notepad file, it would be blank and your secret data wont be shown.

7) If you want to access your secret data again just open command prompt and move to the location where you kept the notepad file and type below:

 notepad NormalFile.txt:SecretFile.txt  

8) Your secret data would come up this time

Note: If someone deletes the NormalFile.txt then your secret data will also get deleted.

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