Folder Redirection: Using The Windows Registry

Many of us have been practicing to have a privacy using the personal computer. Some are making  their own local user account, setting a password so that no one could access his or her files. Some users are installing third party softwares just to lock down their important files. Other user's make their files compact in one folder then simply hiding to another sub folder and keep it hidden.

Now let me share to you a tutorial, a simple and manual one. This is my own style of simply redirecting user who wants to view my files. The time they try to access it, they will be redirected to another location on the computer.

First, make a simple folder, in my tutorial, I make a folder named "sample" at my desktop. Open the folder, click on the address bar and copy the text highlighted, please refer to the picture below.

Now, I suggest that you install winrar, after the installation, open winrar and paste the values copied from the windows explorer address bar to the winrar address bar and simply removing the "\sample" value at the end, press enter.

Then highlight the folder that you make, as in my tutorial is the sample folder and rename it, the "sample" word adding the values ".{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}". Notice the sample folder icon changes to My Computer icon.

Close winrar and try opening the folder that you made recently on the desktop. Thinking that you can access the folder inside but you cannot, you will just be redirected to My Computer.

 Reversing the process is easy, just remove the string that we added which is ".{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}", without the quotes and everything will be fine and back to normal. Hope this tutorial someday will be useful to you. Keep safe everyone!