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Add “Hide” and “Unhide” Options in File / Folder Context Menus in Windows XP, Vista and 7
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suraj
SaTiSh MeDoS
I have tried this Mr.Vishal but when i click on any file to hide or unhide my command prompt jus blinks once and closes .........nothing else happens
VG
^^ Refresh the explorer window and you'll see the changes.
Jensen
Hey same is happening with me.. Just a cmd prompt blinks..n nothin else happens...i refreshed the explorer..then also its the same...Tried closing the folder n again opening it... still the file was the same...nothing hidden
Mic
how can i remove this on my context menu?
VG
^^ Open regedit and goto:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\
Under this key, delete "Hide File" and "Unhide File" keys.
Prithviraj Singh
Saurabh Gupta
Hey Man, another awesome tweak from AskVG, der is a prob wid this 1 though.
Like others i m facing d same prob. Clicking HIDE/UNHIDE FILE options do nothing but showing cmd screen for a moment and den nothing at all.
Any fix or sumthing plz let us know.
Thnx a ton.
Naveen.K.V
Hey guys,
i made it work with little tweaking and here is what i did.
1) open the registry for editing (Run->regedit)
2) Navigate to this location "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\hide File\Command"
3) Right pane will display (Default). Double click on (Default).
4) Change the Value data to "attrib -h "%1"" . Only change here would be an extra pair of
double quotes for %1.
5) Repeat the steps from 2 to 4 for Unhide File and the location is "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Unhide File\Command".
6) This can be done by making the changes to .reg files as well, but for some reason it
didnt work for me , so i decided to do it manually. Hope it works for others
FirefoxEr
this post is bogus, you cannot unhide a hidden file, because is hidden, so you need to add other registry code to SEE ALL hidden files, so you could unhide the hidden file.