Show Hidden Files Issue / Problem (due to Virus)
For many days i was facing an issue that hidden files were not showing up in my PC even if i enabled the show Hidden Files checkbox in the Folder Options dialog box. I edited various values in the registry, but i was not able to solve the problem. Then i browsed through this link and found a solution for showing hidden files.
The steps are :-
- Open registry( select run command from start menu and type regedit and then press enter)
- In the left pane goto path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftware\Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer \Advanced \Folder \Hidden \SHOWALL
- Delete the value CheckedValue in the Right pane by right clicking it and selecting delete. (Its type should be REG_SZ and data should be 2.)
- Create a new DWORD value called CheckedValue by right clicking in the Right pane and then selecting new -> DWORD Value and then changing the name to CheckedValue. (same as above, except that the type is REG_DWORD). Modify the value data to 1 (0x00000001) by right clicking the CheckedValue in the Right pane and selecting modify and changing the value data to 1.
This should let you change the “Hidden Files and Folders” option.
Why this happens? The fact that the hidden files were not showing up was due to virus which would have changed the value in the registry and the virus may be still present. Even when the virus was removed the old value may not have been restored in the registry.
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ronak said,
December 5, 2007 at 11:04 am
Wow….coool trickk…xactly wat i m lookin for..thanks
RANI said,
December 18, 2007 at 12:12 pm
THANKS A LOT!!!!!!!THIS HAS REALLY HELPED ME!!!!!
Mani said,
December 22, 2007 at 9:06 pm
thanx it really works 🙂
oscar90 said,
December 23, 2007 at 2:43 am
This does not work for me. My hidden files are still ‘hidden’ and i really need to access them. I was trying to use truecrypt and freehidefolder but didn’t manage to successfully use both of them. Now my hidden folders are gone. 😦 Please help me.
Mahesh said,
December 27, 2007 at 1:48 pm
thanx a lot, this is the exact problem i am looking for and now i got the solution
Mayur said,
January 18, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Thanks a lot, this is what i was looking for, great job, thank you, i had this problem on laptop, i thought i should format it but u helped.
w3s said,
January 18, 2008 at 8:10 pm
same as oscar90….
Nirmal Kumar said,
February 2, 2008 at 10:32 am
Hi oscar90 … run good anti virus to remove the virus or spyware first and then apply the changes as specified. It may work.
macky said,
February 13, 2008 at 11:19 am
thank a lot dudes.
Jagadeesh and Sampath said,
February 27, 2008 at 8:33 am
thank u very much, i solved my problem, keep it up.
talha said,
March 1, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Thanks,
It works, doing a great job
keep it up!!!
happ yguy said,
March 2, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Thanks man,
this is what I was looking for ….
lijo joseph said,
March 5, 2008 at 4:13 am
its not worked for me ..pls help
Bala said,
March 7, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Thanks it was very very useful.
In firefox the display is not proper for your post, the full path you have given that needs to be modified is getting truncated.
This is the full Path
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftware\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL
This may be the reason, why it is not working for some people
Nirmal Kumar said,
March 10, 2008 at 5:37 am
Thanks bala , As i did not included a space in path it took the whole path as a word and did not break. I have made changes now
bhupendra said,
March 17, 2008 at 9:47 am
thanks a lot dude u solved a problem which was really a havok..
thaks again
Gowthamraghavan.tr said,
March 25, 2008 at 7:52 am
Tnx alot ya…Due to many reason our Anti virus nt working properly ..coz v r nt updating properly..and one thing is tat v must disable the autoplay option in Pendrive
gurvinder said,
March 27, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Thank u for this valueable info……………………….
I solved my problem by this trick………
naveen said,
March 28, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Thanks it worked
vivek said,
April 2, 2008 at 5:45 pm
hey! u rok man.. this worked..
Nagendra said,
April 5, 2008 at 4:34 am
Sorry it does not worked for me.
Actually as i made new value#1, Registryeditor does not allow to rename it as CheckedValue & as i refresh the right side window the deleted CheckedValue returns again and again. Please tell me any other way to show hidden files and folders. In my PC Drives also are not opening in same windows. It is due to any virus. Please reply me.
THANKS.
Ravikant Shinde said,
April 14, 2008 at 8:26 am
Dear sir / madam
Its a great solution useful for me.
Thanks a lot.
Regards
Ravikant
Andres said,
April 19, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Gracias, funciono ferpecto. Mi caso fue por un mardito virus.
sanmeet said,
April 20, 2008 at 4:58 am
Thanx…!
costin said,
May 2, 2008 at 8:02 pm
same problem as nagendra
the virus immediately rewrites the registry after I delete it, and I cannot rename the one created by me.
karthik said,
May 9, 2008 at 11:45 am
thanks a ton ur tutorial is awesome
n@p said,
May 16, 2008 at 6:25 am
thanks man! i was searching the registry like mad for the past few weeks!!! too bad i was looking in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER section … why does microsoft have to put conflicting values in whole different sections of the registry??? newy,thanks a lot! 🙂
sagar said,
May 19, 2008 at 4:04 pm
hey it really wrkd..awsm yaar..js simply awsm..
obu said,
May 22, 2008 at 9:26 am
This is not working in my case.I am unable to find the virus process that is running in my pc.After changing checked value to 1 again it is modifeid to 0 so iam unable to show the hidden files.How to find the process and stop virus so that it will work .else the value is changed to 0 from 1plz help
sumit agrawal said,
May 26, 2008 at 10:21 pm
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Saber said,
June 10, 2008 at 10:34 am
It works 🙂 thanks
fady said,
June 16, 2008 at 5:46 pm
thanx alot it really helped 😀
fady said,
June 16, 2008 at 5:47 pm
wow this really helped 😀
Mani said,
July 2, 2008 at 6:54 am
Thnx bro, it works!!!
Ammar said,
July 9, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Thankyou very very much….
Lilys said,
July 16, 2008 at 5:16 am
Thx. now i can see my hidden file. ^_^
Kirtish said,
July 16, 2008 at 10:02 am
Thanx Dude …. ur Suggestion regarding Hidden files… helped us in solving problem .!! Kepp up the gud wrk..!!
Gagan said,
July 17, 2008 at 10:15 am
Thanks Bro.. it worked for me….
marlon said,
July 28, 2008 at 6:24 pm
hi, got the same problem with Nagendra here. 😦
mary said,
August 2, 2008 at 8:05 pm
My checked value doesnt work!!
The default value is 1 and the checked value has to be 1 too!but after change and closing it will be 0 again!!!
Savio said,
August 17, 2008 at 6:24 am
Thanks a lot man… it wrks………..
Yahoooooooooooooooooooooo…
Majid Azim said,
August 17, 2008 at 8:48 pm
you have earned a place in heaven by doing this =)
seriously… thanks a bunch XD
shank said,
August 25, 2008 at 4:14 am
ohh !! it didn’t work!!after performing above operations, in hidden files and folder second checkbox(show hidden files and folder) has been disappeared.
plz solve this problem.
pratap said,
August 26, 2008 at 12:56 pm
this doesn’t work in my pc. the value i changes to 1 automatically changes to 0.what would i do…?
Mandeep said,
August 30, 2008 at 2:12 pm
hi i m Mandeep, i want to tell you something about this prob,
change CheckedValue is the right way to solve this problem, but if virus still have in your system then may be it’s not work because when you change CheckedValue or recreate then virus will auto create wrong value or when you delete then also automatically create CheckedValue so if you have this prob then 1st you need to use anti virus who remove this virus then you can change CheckedValue it will be work
nyxx777 said,
September 1, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Thanks dude, it really helps… two thumbs up…
CheapShot said,
September 5, 2008 at 6:07 am
Thanks. it works like magic.
mohamed ibrahim said,
September 26, 2008 at 10:57 pm
thnxxx…
realy thank you
its very good thing
because i cant seee very important hidden file
Thanks
shammika said,
September 30, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Thankx friend, it workzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
I was thinking of a format.
Thankx pal.
Abhishek said,
October 3, 2008 at 5:36 pm
thnx yaar.
U r the best.
Thank uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
thilina said,
October 23, 2008 at 11:23 am
hureeeeeeeeeey its working
Balaiah said,
October 24, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Cool Trick Thanks Machhi
ira said,
October 27, 2008 at 9:55 am
i have the same problem……… but in the path u specified after software\Microsoft instead of ‘windows ‘mine says ‘windows 3.1 migration status’ in the directory…….. and it does not have the rest of the path in it. wht do i do?
sam said,
October 28, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Thanks a TON…. it works…….
Nishanth said,
October 30, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Thanx Dude…..
This solution is working fine…after removing virus through antivirus software
Um3r said,
October 31, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Thanxx alot…. Weldone!!!
Will said,
November 6, 2008 at 7:19 am
Whoever you are, good afternoon! ;D
Thanks!
Love! xD ;D ;*
gigi said,
November 10, 2008 at 11:01 am
thanks man
Manik said,
November 13, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Visit http://www.pcmagics.com/category/virus-removal/
Jack said,
December 2, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Doesn’t work, bc the virus make the same move, it delete the registry called CheckedValue, and create the same with status 0, it is restoring every second
Jack said,
December 2, 2008 at 3:55 pm
What kind of virus is? how can i delete it?
hitu009@yahoo.com said,
December 9, 2008 at 6:06 am
I wonder about this. So easy method to solve problem i had been suffering from. Thanks to you guys for helping people.
Alberto said,
December 19, 2008 at 1:00 am
Jack…
I got the same problem.. Did u solve it??
I’m getting crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
h3ctor said,
December 25, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Definetely Works [Nagendra,costin,Alberto,ira ,mary,obu nd e.t.c]
Here for you guys
1) i just used winRAR and extracted the desktop in this s/w and all my hidden files of desktop was visible to me…..it works definately
2) Just follow the following steps:-
i) go to the start button and select Run
ii) type cmd in the pop up box and come to the dos prompt
iii) To see the hidden files and folders type command:- dir/ah and press enter
iv) To unhide the file type:- attrib filename.extension -h -s and press enter
OR
attrib * -h -s and press enter
vi) attrib foldername -h -s
Believe me these two methods will help u a lot without formatting ur pc
Regard h3ctor
shkr said,
January 2, 2009 at 7:31 pm
thank you man it really helps.first i have a virus and it doesnt work but now its fine.thanks again 🙂
Fahad Ahsan said,
January 7, 2009 at 9:50 am
dude ur method rocks … !! thnx a lot … was just goen 2 reinstall the windows.. but now there is no need 2 do tat … thnx a lot once again .. u rock man 🙂
Fahad Ahsan said,
January 7, 2009 at 9:53 am
but as u hav stated that its type should be REG_SZ … n value should be 2 ….
my type was REG_DWORD and value was 0 .. i just edited the value to 1 … n the files showed up .. it is because … in binary .. 0 stands for off .. n 1 stands for on … so i edited it to 1 …. which is on … n the files showed up … really appreciate ur help 🙂 .. best regards ! !
Benu said,
January 13, 2009 at 6:27 am
Hi, It is not working for me. Whenever I am trying to delete the dword value, it is automatically creating one with the same name. So I am not able to create the dword value named CheckedValue.
h3ctor said,
January 13, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Thx Fahad Ahsan & shkr
benu jzt try the above method
larvaess said,
January 22, 2009 at 9:49 am
what the hell, i deleted the checkedvalue dword but when i create a new one it says it already exist! i closed and opened regedit again and the dword is magically there again! what the…. can you help me with this? i think my computer’s having a mind of its own. we’re all doomed!
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January 27, 2009 at 6:14 pm
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R-a-M-u-J said,
January 28, 2009 at 2:21 am
This procedure didn’t work in my case and I tried searching for my own satisfaction… hehehe…
I’ve trid this procedure and worked like a miracle..
For drive C “hidden file”:
1.) Go to RUN in the start panel
2.) Type CMD for command window
3.) Type attrib * -h -s /S /D
4.) Then press ENTER
For drive D “hidden files”:
1.) in the “command window” type D: then press ENTER
2.) type attrib * -h -s /S /D then press ENTER
For external devices like USB, Memory card and the likes:
1.) in the Command window.. Type F: (or wherever drive you inserted your external memory) then press ENTER
2.) type attrib * -h -s /S /D
There you have it!!!
It will work just as that…
But if you have hidden files due to viruses.. Please do clean your computers first… OK??
What I can recommend… McAfee Anti-virus is amazing!!! hehehe… And don’t forget to get the latest one…
Goodluck!!!
From PHILIPPINES with love!!!
hhehehe….
Yasir said,
January 29, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Thank you so much man for posting this solution. i really was in a bit of a trouble with this issue but you helped a lot. thanks again for the help
Saroare said,
February 3, 2009 at 8:45 am
Thanx, Its works Successfully.
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February 5, 2009 at 1:13 am
hey, thanks a lot!!! its help me!!!
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http://www.gmer.net
sandamal said,
February 5, 2009 at 7:57 am
THANKS BRO>Keep Going !!!!
Nikhil said,
February 7, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Thank you sooo muchh!
trombine said,
February 13, 2009 at 10:08 am
didn’t work out!
actually i don’t have this RZ type of the ChechedValue,
it’s DWORG on my PC, i’ve deleted it, created one with data=1 as u said, but i couldnt find the SHOW HIDDEN FILES at all in the folder option, then i created the same file i deleted with data=0 …i got the SHOW HIDDEN FILES button but still i cant see my hidden files.
Imran said,
February 18, 2009 at 10:15 am
Thank you so much friend..It realy works..Your are gr8..
Imran said,
February 18, 2009 at 10:29 am
If anybdy have still prblm then plz dnt hesitate to call me on 9890985880..[send me sms b4 cal wid ur name and details of prblm]
SomGuy said,
February 21, 2009 at 8:06 pm
FINALLY!! sumthing that works, like if you were a guy I would kiss you, but if you are a girl…[ like oh baby bayby ]
Saad said,
February 22, 2009 at 12:49 pm
THE VIRUS IN MY PC IS ABIT MORE COMPLICATED. APART FROM REMOVING THE HIDDEN FILES OPTION IT HAS ALSO BLOCKED THE SEARCH OPTION.
AND WHEN I WRITE REGEDIT IN RUN, IT SAYS YOUR ADMINISTRATOR HAS NOT ALLOWED ACCESS TO REGEDIT THOUGH I M THE ADMINISTRATOR. AND IT AFTER THE MESSAGE IT RESTARTS MY WINDOW.
KINDLY HELP ME IN THIS REGARD.
Mike Baross said,
February 24, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Great solutions. You are the best..Thanks a lot.
Madhu said,
March 1, 2009 at 8:37 am
@ Saad
Which anti-virus do u have?
chooku said,
March 2, 2009 at 1:27 pm
thanks it helped… yuppy i’m so happy
Rejish said,
March 7, 2009 at 9:28 am
Thanks a lot.
Rameez said,
March 12, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Hey nice to see mines hidden file b coz u thanks a lot
Alexius Wee said,
March 19, 2009 at 9:48 am
What a trick. just a simple steps can kill the virus function. Great work.
Behnam said,
March 19, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Thank you. I wonder when microsoft is planning to provide a repair software to do these jobs.
Nirmal Kumar said,
March 20, 2009 at 6:04 am
After anyone other than Microsoft built a tool 😉
Shiyas said,
March 20, 2009 at 2:11 pm
if nothing works,then try this
goto Command Prompt using Run command,then type the following command
attrib -h c:\test\*.* /d /s
this will unhide all the folders and files
Ameen said,
March 22, 2009 at 8:48 pm
simple steps ,, good job .
ciger said,
March 29, 2009 at 9:35 pm
THX A LOT cigerim
Habib said,
March 30, 2009 at 8:05 pm
em8tqm.cmd is a avirus in my computer which didn’t show my hideen files…
AJAY said,
April 5, 2009 at 7:31 am
Thanks sir
for your nice solution
good job ………………………………………………….
Asfur said,
April 10, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Thanks a lot!…
It works!…
Abhi said,
April 11, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Thanks buddy 4 ur core solution
joan said,
April 13, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Whew! i thot i was going to go crazy with the problem with my computer…
i am now currently cleaning up my pc..whew!
thanks alot man!
Joshi Hilary said,
April 14, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Woh nice thing! bt mine was a lil different i didnt hav to change it to Reg_Dword just had to change the value of ‘0’ to ‘1’ :D…. but it did really work…btw how do i know if the virus is gone?
Aneesh said,
April 16, 2009 at 5:17 am
Hi
Thanks for the information
This is your 100th comment for this post
Rgds
Aneesh
Abrar said,
April 19, 2009 at 2:36 pm
thankesssssssssssss for you
Aaron said,
April 22, 2009 at 6:44 am
I tried all suggestions the only one that seems to do something is attrib * -h -s /S /D but after pressing enter the prompt just goes to a blank line and sets there. I have been working for 3 days now to fix this issue and clean my comp up. Thanks in advance for the help…
Aaron said,
April 22, 2009 at 7:16 am
I got this message
Unable to change attribute -C:\Documents and Settings\Aaron Stewart\desktop\CA49EZCT
I then changed to C:\ and typed dir/ah and got 48 Files and 5 Directories. I then did what is pasted below –
C:\>attrib * -h -s /S /D
Unable to change attribute – C:\autorun.inf\lpt3.This folder was created by Flas
h_Disinfector
Unable to change attribute – C:\Documents and Settings\Aaron Stewart\desktop\CA4
9EZCT.
Access denied – C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe
PDF\Distiller\Data\epilogue.ps
The list goes on and on for Access Denied all reference Adobe.
surendra maharjan said,
April 24, 2009 at 2:51 pm
hey whoever has given this idea is a great person… it really worked…. its awesome….
thanx anyways….
Prasanth.S said,
May 4, 2009 at 6:58 am
Sir Mysystem Hidden Files Not Showing. Virus Pblm Plz Solve sir
Omi Azad said,
May 19, 2009 at 8:16 am
Thanks for the instruction. It helped a lot.
Rehan said,
May 23, 2009 at 10:18 am
Thank you very much. It helped me a lot. The virus was removed and this solution solved my problem. If my brother had known about the virus he would have formatted the hard disk
mame said,
May 30, 2009 at 7:01 am
wow..
cool trick, it works
thnx
Trilok said,
June 3, 2009 at 4:21 am
Thanks a lot sir!! This trick was really very helpful.
yahooamar said,
June 11, 2009 at 6:22 am
thank you…….so much……..it works really good……
Avelino said,
June 11, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Even after doing dat it still shows da virus what should i do???
javad said,
June 16, 2009 at 5:19 pm
http://www.technize.com/2007/05/13/show-hidden-files-and-folders-not-working/
prakash said,
June 21, 2009 at 12:39 pm
that’s reallly work tnxs frnd …fr u r soluction
Sanjay said,
July 4, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Thanks a lot! Cool Solution…. Any idea how to remove the virus manually?
Jagjit said,
July 12, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Yes it works
Denny said,
July 13, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Try this
Click on Start menu, then click Run (or Windows key + R).
Type cmd, a command prompt window (DOS) will open.
Type regsvr32 /i browseui.dll then press the Enter key, wait for a confirmation window.
Type regsvr32 /i shell32.dll then press the Enter key, wait for a confirmation window.
Close the command prompt.
JAYESH said,
July 14, 2009 at 5:29 am
thanks it really work
jo said,
July 15, 2009 at 11:42 am
Thanks for this, helps my problem because of virus!!!
gaurav said,
July 15, 2009 at 5:10 pm
wow………it really works….!!
thank u….tanx a lot….!!
nice duty…..!.!.!.!
rady said,
July 16, 2009 at 6:50 am
lot of thanks ….
malay said,
August 2, 2009 at 12:57 pm
very very thanx…
🙂
Anup said,
August 8, 2009 at 5:44 pm
My “Checkedvalue” type in “SHOWALL” was REG_DWORD itself & data value was 0, but still I had the problem. As u told, I just deleted the checkedvalue & created a new checkedvalue with data value 1 and the hidden files are finally accessible now.
Thanks a LOT!
Daniel Paul said,
August 8, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Nice Tweak. Thanks
Imran Javed said,
August 14, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Thanks, it does works… 🙂
gary said,
August 20, 2009 at 9:53 am
thanks man it really works!
Venkat said,
August 22, 2009 at 8:30 am
HI guys,
I did all the things explained above. But that didn’t worked for me. If I change the D_WORD Key to 1, it is again changing back to 0.
I am ready to format my pc. If I format can i get my hidden files? or I need to do anything else to get hidden files?
Please help me to get my valuable files……..
Venkat
Mirza Asad Baig said,
August 26, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Waaooo
Thank You Sir
Balraj said,
August 29, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Thanks, its really working.
Sunil Gotla said,
September 15, 2009 at 6:20 pm
I tried to perform the steps in a sequence. When I did the following task, it is throwing an error message stating that the DWORD with the name CheckedValue already exist.
What should I do…
Create a new DWORD value called CheckedValue by right clicking in the Right pane and then selecting new -> DWORD Value and then changing the name to CheckedValue. (same as above, except that the type is REG_DWORD). Modify the value data to 1 (0×00000001) by right clicking the CheckedValue in the Right pane and
Maryam said,
September 27, 2009 at 9:11 am
Thanks, It’s realy useful.
ferdiidref said,
October 4, 2009 at 10:45 am
thanks!
Daniel said,
October 5, 2009 at 7:03 pm
I keep getting this, and Malwarebytes gets rid of it. But why do I keep getting the virus back? My problems started when I downloaded and started to use the browser Google Chrome. I am going to sop using it and see. But does this ring any bells with anybody else?
Syed Asif said,
October 10, 2009 at 1:08 am
Thank you dear. this really work. I m happy to get my folder back
zaheer said,
October 11, 2009 at 12:52 am
Thanks a lot dea, its really works… Thanks thanks thanks
Farooq said,
October 12, 2009 at 4:20 am
i update my nod 32 antivirus but still unable to remove that virus which not allowed me to change the value of CheckedValue……how can i remove the virus easily…..
Ton said,
October 13, 2009 at 9:32 pm
your idea works man………. thank a lot……… cooooolllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if i see you in person i’ll be requesting for your authograph………
kenny said,
October 18, 2009 at 7:08 pm
dude thx man ^^ U realli do helps me out =D
Gud joB =)
Daniel said,
November 1, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Hvala puno,zaista radi…mislim da ce ovo mnogima pomoci zato sto je “autoruner” jedan od najrasprostranjenijih virusa….this is only for Serbian
shailesh said,
December 9, 2009 at 6:09 am
cool trick
Reduan said,
December 10, 2009 at 6:56 am
Thank you very much.
Glad to u forever
Funnymomo said,
December 19, 2009 at 12:19 am
Very COOL trick thanx a lot
L/\N|)O said,
January 4, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Thank you very much. Couldn’t find solution for a long time – u rock man !! 😀
safwan said,
February 14, 2010 at 7:27 pm
thank you so much…i m not so familiar with computers..but still i was able to unhide files.thnx once again
hamman said,
February 19, 2010 at 1:48 pm
thank you!
it helps a lot!
RicardolbSdA said,
February 26, 2010 at 10:50 pm
not works
RubeNs said,
April 9, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Thanks a lot buddy!!
Your tip is amazing!! My problem is solved!! This really works!!
Aditya said,
April 15, 2010 at 11:12 am
is it the same for an external hard drive
Ajay said,
April 19, 2010 at 2:27 am
in my PC hidden folders are not showing because of virus previously i am using mcafee anti virus & i am updating weeekly by dat but from last week i am not able to download that dat file below is the URL whre i am downloading(http://www.mcafee.com/apps/downloads/security_updates/dat.asp) pls anyone suggest me any free antivirus which is best ( i dont have net coonection on my PC & MY PC running on windows XP
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Gabriel said,
July 17, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Thank you it worked for me
Anitha said,
August 4, 2010 at 4:07 am
It s superb.. working fine….
chester said,
August 29, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Cool advice! it worked!
Abhishek saxena said,
October 14, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Excellent..it worked…to all, if the “CheckedValue” is not of type “REG_SZ”, just go ahead and change the value to “1”, by doing right click and modify
It wasn’t “REG_SZ” in my case, it was “REG_DWORD”, and I was afraid to change it, it still worked.. 🙂
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November 24, 2010 at 4:47 pm
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November 28, 2010 at 1:34 pm
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December 19, 2010 at 5:39 am
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kinda said,
February 24, 2011 at 12:05 am
thanx… it worked
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April 3, 2011 at 5:53 am
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sarah said,
April 18, 2011 at 11:42 am
hi, a simpler way, is going to windows help- searching hidden files, it will send you to folder settings- advanced settings- and click show hidden files!
mohamed.hegazy said,
April 19, 2011 at 2:34 pm
very thanks
micah B said,
May 2, 2011 at 1:06 am
this seemed to help but when i ran attrib -h -s c:*.* /s /d
it gave me everyone of my files with a access denied next to it:(
Randolph said,
May 8, 2011 at 5:08 pm
For those who have the same issue on their USB. I recommend ShowUSB. A tiny program yet effective tool to show hidden files caused by a virus.
Here’s the link:
http://www.geeksdesk.com/usb-show-recover-all-hidden-files-from-usb-devices/#comment-4343
virgo King said,
June 1, 2011 at 10:10 pm
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June 6, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Is not working, i have aproblem with Xp, Vista and 7 O.S. Hidden.exe just fix the Folders on programs Files, but when you click in All Program and select one folder displayed empty.
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rezaun said,
June 13, 2011 at 2:55 am
not find out my hidden files..:(
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June 15, 2011 at 2:18 am
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June 29, 2011 at 1:13 pm
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Edwin said,
August 11, 2011 at 5:15 pm
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September 20, 2011 at 9:06 am
Thank you so much! It worked for me!
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October 23, 2011 at 6:32 pm
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kieran said,
October 27, 2011 at 2:52 am
I went through the steps and it didn’t solve my problem. I have a external hard drive that I can’t see the files for. It shows in my computer as 900 gig full. Is there anything else I can do?
Guardian said,
January 20, 2012 at 6:57 pm
Thanks very much!!!!
phil said,
February 1, 2012 at 4:38 am
it actually work……in my case, the my checkvalue is in DWORD type not in SZ and with a value of 0……i just change the value to one and works!!! tnx dude
Aiko Matsunaga said,
March 20, 2012 at 11:29 am
I know this thread is old, but… anyway, I tried doing the above solution as I was hit with a virus too. But, this solution doesn’t work for me as my value is correct at 1, and I was able to show other hidden folders.
In one particular directory for a program in my C:/ drive, none of my folders and files are showing AT ALL! Even though when I right-click it is says there is 9.80 GB of stuff there… also, when I tell the folder to go “hidden” and its’ subfolders and files, I can see it going through all the files… even though I cannot see them at all and the folders are showing up empty. Please help! Even the program is not registering the files.
Aiko Matsunaga said,
March 20, 2012 at 11:34 am
Oh, now the program is reading the files! They just don’t show up in the normal directory. Oh well. thank you anyway heehee.
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hamza said,
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but when i changed check value 0 to 1 and then i go to show hidden files he not show i again going in registry but he agin o in check value tell me this problem
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