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Hide a file in Windows and set to read only

How to hide a file in Windows?

How to set a read only file in Windows?

Or set a read only file in Windows and hide it.

Setting a file to read only or hiding a file in Windows, or doing both at the same time, can be done using Command Prompt or using PowerShell.

Example commands:

Hiding a file in Windows using PowerShell:

(Get-Item "C:\file_example.txt").Attributes = 'Hidden'

Setting a read-only file:

(Get-Item "C:\file_example.txt").Attributes = 'ReadOnly'

Set both read-only and hidden attributes to a file.

(Get-Item "C:\file_example.txt").Attributes = 'Hidden, ReadOnly'

How to reset the attributes or remove the attributes that was set?

(Get-Item "C:\file_example.txt").Attributes = 'Normal'


Hiding a file using command Prompt:

c:\attrib +h "file_example.txt"

Setting a read-only file:

c:\attrib +h "file_example.txt"

Set both read-only and hidden attributes to a file.

c:\attrib +h +r "file_example.txt"

How to reset the attributes or remove the attributes that was set?

c:\attrib -h -r "file_example.txt"


That's it..till next time...



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