Some times you don't want people to see your personal files or folders which holds your images or any kind of private stuff in this case you would like to hide your private folder because that's the easiest way to protect your personal stuff but believe me this hiding trick is so common that any one can knew that you are hiding something and that person can easily reach your private folder that you tried to hide.
But don't worry there is one more way by which no one can reach to your private folder but you. Any one can unhide your hidden folder but what if you can make your private folder invisible. If you can't see a thing then how you are going to reach it, its like impossible thing except for the one who has made it invisible.
So lets start the steps to create an invisible folder on desktop of windows 7.
Step 1 : Select the folder that you want to make invisible.
Step 2 : Then click right button of your mouse, and then click on 'Rename' from the options. See image below for convenience.
Step 3 : Now type on your keyboard 'Alt+0160' and then press Enter. This will hide the name of your folder.
Step 4 : Now to hide folder icon, select the same folder again and click right button of your mouse, Then click on 'Properties' from the options. See image below for convenience.
Step 5 : Now you will see a properties dialog box, from that select 'Customize' option from top right and then click on 'Change Icon' button which is at the bottom of that properties dialog box. See image below for convenience.
Step 6 : Now as you click on 'Change Icon' button you will see one more 'Change Icon for folder' dialog box. From there select the blank icon or we can say its an invisible icon, then click on ok button. See image below for convenience.
Step 7 : Now you have successfully made your private folder invisible, you can reverse all this steps to make it visible again.
Note : Just remember where you save your invisible folder because it is invisible for you too. You have to remember the path where you save this folder that's it.