Hidden Data in Notepad

This tip is to hide a data in Notepad. Follow the steps to do that.

1) Open Command Prompt
2) Type notepad MyFile.txt:StoreHiddenData and press enter. MyFile.txt is the text file you are going to create whereas StoreHiddenData is the alternate stream name.
3) A message will be pop up “Cannot find the C:\MyFile.txt:StoreHiddenData.txt file”. Do you want to create a new file?”, click OK button to proceed create the new file.
4) A notepad will be pop up. Type any data that you want to be hidden from others. Save the file and you are now successfully creating hidden data for this file.

The hidden data you have created will not contribute to the total file size. Just open Explorer and look for this file, you will observe that the file size is still zero. Now you can go ahead to type some data and saved it as usual. Good thing is, it will not affect the hidden data that you have saved earlier. On top of that, you can display or delete all the hidden data you have saved previously. However, you must download and install Streams (http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/Streams.zip) application before you can do so. To delete hidden data, go to command prompt and type more < MyFile.txt:StoreHiddenData.txt. If you want to delete all hidden data , the syntax is streams.exe –d MyFile.txt.

Have a try :-)