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How to hide text in Notepad

December 31st, 2008 | 5 Comments | Posted in Tips & Tricks by Karthikeyan
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A small trick to hide text inside your text file using command prompt, but this trick works only on NTFS file system.

Steps to hide text in a Notepad



  • Open your command prompt Start–>Run type cmd
  • Move to any destination for example let us assume D:\> drive
  • Type the below code in your command prompt
  • D:\>notepad tothetech.txt:hidden
  • tothetech notepad save
  • A notepad window will be opened asking do you want to create new txt file as show above picture.
  • tothetech notepad hidden
  • Write some data and save the file.
  • Move to D:\> and open tothetech.txt you cannot see no data in the file tothetech.txt.
  • To retrieve the hidden data open command prompt and type the same command.
  • D:\>notepad tothetech.txt:hidden
  • Notepad will open tothetech.txt file with hidden data


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5 Responses to “How to hide text in Notepad”

  1. muthukrishnan Says:

    then how to view the datas?

  2. Karthikeyan Says:

    Read the post again you can get the answer :)

  3. kh@n Says:

    this from the owner of technotracks.smsgupshup

    then how to view the hidden dats again.wheather we have to use any commands at cmd screen

  4. Karthikeyan Says:

    # To retrieve the hidden data open command prompt and type the same command.
    # D:\>notepad tothetech.txt:hidden

  5. Kunal Says:

    nothing happens with this trick yaar what is this some osrt of a joke ive tried hundred times




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