How to hide files inside JPEG

Windows operating system provides default feature to hide files or folder by enabling the hidden option in attributes. But most of the people know this trick so easily they can find your files. How about a trick to hide files behind images. It is an eye pranking trick to divert them who tries to access your files. You can hide files inside JPEG images using command prompt. Don’t get worried about using command prompt it is a simple task anyone can use it.

How to hide files inside JPEG

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To hide files inside JPEG all you need is compression software and just follow this simple steps

1. Create a folder in C drive with any name lets say ‘hide’

2. Copy the files into the folder which you want to hide behind the image and also the ‘JPEG image’ where the files to be hidden inside

3. Compress the files to be hidden with compression software (like 7zip or WinRAR or something else)

4. Now open command prompt and type the following command (to access command prompt go to run and type ‘cmd’)

C:\>cd hide

Copy /b Google.jpg + hide.rar output.jpg

Google.jpg is the image where the files to be hidden

hide.rar is the file to be hidden

Output.jpg is the file that we want

All your files will be copied to output.jpg

Now you can delete all the files except “output.jpg”.

The output.jpg is the image which all your files are hidden

Now your file is hidden inside JPEG image. As I said earlier it is an “eye pranking trick”, when users move across the file they may think it as an image even though when they open the file it opens as normal image

How to access the files hidden inside JPEG image

You can access the hidden files by opening the file with compression software

Extract it using the compression software you will obtain folder containing the hidden file

Try this technique to hide files inside JPEG pictures