Accessing hidden data streams

Question

Once you've found a hidden data stream, how do you access it? I'm using windows and I have found the file in C:documents\file7.txt:hiddensecret.txt.

Complete newbie in training thanks.

Answer 1

List of Notepad command line parameters:

There is but a limited set of command line options:

/A <filename> open file as ansi
/W <filename> open file as unicode
/P <filename> print filename
/PT <filename> <printername> <driverdll> <port> print filename to designated printer

There is no switch to disable file menu functionality.

Answer 2

Go to cmd and go to the directory then C:\Users\your_username\documents>expand file7.txt:hiddensecret.txt filname.txt(the filename and ext(i.e txt,jpg,mp4 etc) you want it in) Here "expand" is a built in microsoft utility that will extract/copy the file into the folder where it will be visible and accessible.