Windows 10 Search - Finding hidden files?

[DrPopkorne]

Hi guys hope you're all safe from the election gossip.

I've got a small outbreak of students using hidden folders to store their secret games and images on their personal drives and network shares. I've been using the cool search features on Windows 10 and 2012R2 to find all sorts of stuff I could never have before but I was wondering, is there any easy way to search for just hidden items?

 

We have over 2000 students so going through them all would take years. I've made good use of search criteria like kind:=picture etc. and wondered if there could be something similar?

[sted]

if you dont mind dos

 

dir /a:h /s >file.txt

 

should list all files with the attribute hidden to a text file not exactly user friendly but should work

[LeMarchand]

I've never used it, but there is a Freeware solution called "Find Hidden" by opx.bit that looks like it might help. Doesn't seem to be developed any more though.

 

Are they copying the data then "hiding" it? Might be easier to block the ability to write attributes.