How To Hide An Installed Program In Windows

How To Hide An Installed Program In Windows

If you want to hide any installed program in your system then this trick is useful for you. In this post I will show you how you  can hide an installed program from other in your system. Just do this simple steps .

Step 1. First of all go to C Drive and then find Program Files folder. For ex. You want to hide firefox installation from other then go to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox folder and find firefox.exe.

Step 2. Once you get the main executable file, open ‘notepad’ and type complete path of firefox.exe in it, for example :

“C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe”

Note : Should be with quotes otherwise it’ll not work.

Step 3. Now, save this notepad file with whatever name you want with .cmd extention. For example I assume file is saved as fox.cmd .

Step 4. Now, delete shortcuts for firefox from start menu, desktop and quick launch.

Step 5. Now, Open command prompt and change directory to ‘Program Files’ and type following commands,

C:\Program Files>attrib /s /d /l +s +h +r “Mozilla Firefox”.

Step 6. You’ll find Mozilla Firefox directory disappeared from ‘Program Files’.

 Now paste your fox.cmd file in C:\Windows\System32\ folder.

That’s it. As you will remove all shortcuts to executable file there will be no link as the directory is hidden using attrib command no one can see it. Now to Run your program open command prompt and type fox or the mane with which you saved .cmd file. Within seconds you will see firefox or hidden program popping out in new window. One of the advantages of this trick is that you’ll be able to disallow people from using unwanted programs even though he/she will have admin privileges specially your family members and friends.