Make all files of a certain type hidden?

This is not recommend for non-geeks. I am leaving some detailed steps out that other geeks will know. Warning: messing with regedit can mess up your computer to a point that you need to reinstall the operating system. Personally, I would do the hidden folder, flash drive, external hard drive. Here is the basic steps

If you normally hide system files, you can label that extension as a system file in the registry.

Do regedit, hkey classes root, find that extension, make the PerceivedType as system. See the file extension .manifest for an example of a system file extension. Here is a page on PerceivedType

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc144150(V...

You might be trying to hide like image files so you need to change that PerceivedType back to image. And you might have to reboot your computer.

This is a much easier way to do it. Remember to navigate to the root folder before running if you want it to apply for all files. Go the the second reply from 'me 1'

Only thing is you will need to re-run this whenever it's needed. Could put it in start up or as a scheduled task and limit it to a specific folder to make it run a bit quicker.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/33953-45-make-...

So many ways to skin a cat!

R.

if you put all of the files in to one folder and then make that folder hidden. besides for that I cant think of any other way.

hope this helped