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So my parents bought me a new machine.
Awesome, eh? Except I'm not allowed to game on it. Still am of course...
So far I'm going to.... obvious delete it from the Start menu, and quickstart. Also delete it from the Games folder that Windows keeps updated. For the StarCraft II folder inside of Documents I'll make it hidden. For the main StarCraft folder I'll install it in some obscure place and make it hidden. Is there any way to make it resistant to Searches? Nothing I can do about the registry I think....
Any tips and hints to hide your games? Any stories about hiding games?
 
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Canada7170 Posts
Something about Twilight Utilities?
A different thread on TL a long time ago suggested it, I told my younger cousin and he says it's amazing. Try at your own risk.
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If your parents are Luddites why even bother doing all this? Are they going to be combing over it over certain time periods so that they know 100% you aren't having games on it?
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well, if you want to, you also have a choice of having he games in an external harddisk..
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Put it in a folder called 'Porn'. You parents will never open that folder, so it's perfectly safe.
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I would personally hide it in a folder named "School Work" or something like that. Make folders for each class and put legit assignments in them. Keep on making subfolders and hid your games in one of them. Unless you parents are that crazy and search and click on every single folder you will have in there or in your computer.
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You can disable the Windows Search feature entirely, though that will make it so that you can't search for anything.
Alternatively, you can manually exclude specific folders from Windows Searches using the technique shown in this guide here.
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Regardless of how you hide it hopefully they won't notice the hard drive space shrinking. I can't think of too many easy ways that you could hide that.
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What kind of perverted parents would buy you a brand new computer and expect you NOT to put any games on it?
(just kidding!)
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Well my parents basically HATE games...
They think they rot the brain and they would actually pay money to keep me from paying games
The thought of them buying me a new machine and me playing games on it is unbearable for them
On March 12 2011 11:25 neSix wrote:
What kind of perverted parents would buy you a brand new computer and expect you NOT to put any games on it?
(just kidding!)
They're Asian. Enough said?
On March 12 2011 11:18 Trowabarton756 wrote:
If your parents are Luddites why even bother doing all this? Are they going to be combing over it over certain time periods so that they know 100% you aren't having games on it?
It's going to be a software development system so my dad will be using it occasionally. He might stumble across games and rage at me about it. The thing is he'll be running it in Linux. Would he be able to see my Windows stuff if he's running Linux?
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Don't forget that it appears in add/remove programs, use some utility program to remove the entry.
You can also put the whole game in a rar file using "store only" compression with password. "store only" does not compress at all so its fast.
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Vatican City State2594 Posts
Hide it in the windows/system folder. Or make your own, like windows/system64/
He should still be able to see your folders while running Linux and then the invisible folder option will be more or less useless. Your best option is to rename the folder something else and put some decoy folders/files into that system64/ folder like copy+pasting some real windows files into that folder then renaming the sc folder inside that folder like h23874f298f28, like some folders are named in the real system folder.
EDIT: Also remove it from the Program list in Control Panel
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Additionally it'll show up in the windows firewall permission list. You could just not add it to the safelist and disable windows firewall whenever you want to play.
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How computer savvy are your parents?
I remember in high school I hid World of Warcraft in a folder labeled "xerox" in program files, relabeled the .exe and any other file that came up on a "World of Warcraft" search, and removed it from the start bar and programs tab and they never found it.
Then I just deleted all the shortcuts a few years later and they still never found it.
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hahaha i remember several years back, we hid a version of doom in a folder we called "stereo3d" because we were not old enough to play this x)
so much for story, now for practical solutions: This is obviously not applicable for starcraft, but if you install small indie games or such, just put put the files onto a USB stick. This works best of course with games that don't need to be installed, like spelunky, within a deep forest or dwarf fortress, these things. But that works for some "real" games too. Some (at least older) games should work on any computer if you simply install them on the usb drive using a different computer. They won't be registered with windows at all, all start menu and uninstall links are not present, but that is what you want in that case anyways - so as long as they execute and don't crash - perfect solution!
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The best story i ever heard about about hiding shit on a computer came from a friend in college. One of his high school friends apparently hid his pr0n in folder by burying it within a chain of other folders, and named it "Bacon Bacon Go!"
He even designed a special icon for it that was a piece of bacon in a superman costume.
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On March 12 2011 11:32 frogmelter wrote:Well my parents basically HATE games... They think they rot the brain and they would actually pay money to keep me from paying games The thought of them buying me a new machine and me playing games on it is unbearable for them Show nested quote +On March 12 2011 11:25 neSix wrote:
What kind of perverted parents would buy you a brand new computer and expect you NOT to put any games on it?
(just kidding!) They're Asian. Enough said? Show nested quote +On March 12 2011 11:18 Trowabarton756 wrote:
If your parents are Luddites why even bother doing all this? Are they going to be combing over it over certain time periods so that they know 100% you aren't having games on it? It's going to be a software development system so my dad will be using it occasionally. He might stumble across games and rage at me about it. The thing is he'll be running it in Linux. Would he be able to see my Windows stuff if he's running Linux?
Haha my parents were the same when I was younger (middle schoolish). But it was them versus me and both my brothers. It took a while but they live with it now 
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Linux can see Windows files.
If your dad is a linux user/programmer the chances of him outplay you are pretty big. Play carefully
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On March 12 2011 12:26 Rokusha wrote:
It's going to be a software development system so my dad will be using it occasionally. He might stumble across games and rage at me about it. The thing is he'll be running it in Linux. Would he be able to see my Windows stuff if he's running Linux?
Sorry but if your dad is in software development and will actually be checking up on you then unless you're using some spiffy program(not even sure if one exists) he's going to catch you. He could just run a search on your drive for recently modified files and your game will come up.
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External HD would be the easiest way to go.
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EPT
