How to create a folder without any icon or name in Windows 11/10

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Something which has not been talked well-nigh much on the Cyberspace is how to create a folder without any icon. We volition meet how it is done in Windows xi/10, but the process is the same in before Windows versions too.

Create a folder without any icon

Right-click on your desktop and create a new folder. In this case, I have named it TWC.

Next, right-click on the binder and select Properties. Click on the Customize tab, and and then on the Change icon button, under Folder icons.

A new box will open. For your information, Organisation icons are found at the following location:

%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll

Move the slider and browse to a blank icon from the list displayed and select information technology. Click OK and then Apply. See the image to a higher place.

You will see the icon disappear and but the name remain.

If this particular bank icon did non work for you, try another blank icon.

Read: How to create a folder name starting with dot.

Create a binder without any proper noun

Once you lot take done this, follow this tutorial to create bare folder names.

You will encounter just a bare space! The folder volition have get invisible to everyone. Click on it, and the folder will open.

Thus, you lot will take created a binder without any icon or name in Windows 10.

In example you were to forget the location of the binder on your desktop, printing Ctrl+A to Select all, and yous volition see the binder selected and appear equally follows:

How to make blank folder names on laptops with no Numpad?

Y'all need to enable the Num Pad on a laptop.

To enable Numpad y'all should exist able to click the Shift+Num Lock keys to enable/disable information technology. This allows yous to use numbers for the alphabetic character keys. Some use the 'FN+Num lk' primal combo to enable/disable. You'll notice that the Numpad keys are shared with the numbers seven, 8, 9, and the letters U, I, O, J, M, L and M.

One time you have enabled it, press "fn+num lk", and then pressed MJOM keys to go 0160 numeric to become a name-less binder on your laptop!

Enjoy!

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Anand Khanse is the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, a ten-year Microsoft MVP (2006-16) & a Windows Insider MVP. Please read the entire mail service & the comments first, create a Organisation Restore Point earlier making whatsoever changes to your organisation & be careful about any tertiary-party offers while installing freeware.