If you’ve got something you want to hide away, then you’ve got plenty of options on Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS—options that we’ll run through here.

If you want to add a level of privacy to certain files & folders on your PC, you can hide them from your Search Results in Windows 11/10.

To view these hidden files on Windows 10, you'll need to tell your computer to show "Hidden Items." It's also easy to mark your own files and folders as hidden, which will make them harder for ...

To run it, search for Disk Cleanup in the Start menu, select the drive with update files (this is usually the C drive), and ...

Show or Hide File Explorer Navigation Pane The navigation pane is the far left pane in File Explorer used to find files, folders, and drives on your Windows 11/10 PC or network.

Or, more accurately, hidden. That’s the default setting in Windows nowadays, the idea being to keep you from monkeying with files and causing system problems.

And while you’re at it, we also have guides on how you can hide files in Windows. Physical media Image used with permission by copyright holder The easiest way to transfer files from PC to PC is ...