Saturday, October 27, 2012

Hidden Option Can't be Unchecked? Fix it Now!





If you look at the above picture, you'll notice the property of a hidden file. And carefully look at the attributes. The option Hidden is checked. And you will not be able to uncheck this. Because this option is disabled. 

In this situation you need to view the files by unchecking the protected operating system files from folder options. Which is very annoying. Because this option reveals many unnecessary files with your required files. 

Today I'm gonna share a cmd command by which you can easily unhide all files and folders from a particular drive. 
  1. Press Windows Logo Key + R.
  2. Type cmd and press Enter and you will see command prompt window.
  3. Now type this command: attrib -s -h K:\*.* /s /d
This will unhide all files and folders of the drive K. Remember K is name of the drive in which you wanna run the operations. If you wanna unhide the folders of any other drive ie. D, then type D instead of K.


To view all hidden files and folders of your PC, follow this instructions: 
Go to My Computer > View > Folder Options > Check Show Hidden Files and Folders > Uncheck Protected Operating System Files. 


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  2. Thank you very much...it worked very very well. very goooooood....!

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    2. when i type this path not found comes plz help me i am worry about

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    3. You entered the drive letter incorrectly. First, copy the code in a notepad file. Then run Command Prompt. Now Go to the notepad file and change the drive letters with your drive. Now copy the code and paste this in Command Prompt Window. Right click and Paste.

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  3. Awsum dude..it works fa me...thanks a lot man :)

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  4. thank you very much:D
    your suggest help me solve problem in less a minute

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  5. thank you brother you are a life saver. it worked very well

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  6. Thank you very much, this actually saved my life after i thought i lost all my work saved :D

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  8. path not found ... i am trying on an external hard disk ... help me plzzz

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    1. Change K to the drive letter of the hard disk.

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  9. path not found ... i am trying on an external hard disk ... help me plzzz

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  10. Thank you verrrrrry much, this really helped me.

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  11. Thank you very much for this. I had a virus on my USB drive and i could not change the hidden choice.

    HINT: For the people who says not working or path not found, change the K letter to the letter of the drive you want to do the changes.

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  12. thanks man.

    it's working :)

    if you are using different drive name (example c: ,d: e:,)

    C instead of K :)

    from turkey ;)

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  13. thanks . its works . it happens to me due to a virus

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  14. it really works, but what if the folder name hav space???? hows that? ? ??

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    1. I can't understand you. What space? You mean a folder name like this - Folder Example?

      Space doesn't matter here. You just need to enter the drive path properly.

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  15. It took about 5 minutes, but eventually all my SD Card folders are visible now. It happened due to a virus
    Thank you Abdur Rahaman, You are a lifesaver :)
    From Mumbai

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  16. Anybody know now to undo this effect? I did this to my C drive!! Mistake

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    1. No way! You can manually hide your files if necessary :)

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  17. I want to have this tattooed on my face. Thank you

    attrib -s -h K:\*.* /s /d

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  18. Hi am getting the error message like 'access denied - G:/ system volume information, Please help me to solve this issue

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    1. You can't unhide system files like Recycler or Volume information by this code. In fact, they are hidden permanently.

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