Repair Windows unable to show hidden files

In some cases, Windows will not be able to show hidden files upon request. In Windows Explorer > Tools > Folder Options... > View Tab > Advanced settings, check on Show hidden files and folders and hit Apply. But after these steps the hidden files are still not shown, and the next time you go in to the same setting, you'll see the setting is set to Do not show hidden files and folders. This is probably caused by your Windows registry being modified by certain virus.

 

Here are the way to manually fix this problem and re-enable the showing of hidden files in Windows system.

1. Go to Start > Run > type in regedit.
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL
3. Delete the key CheckedValue in the right hand window.
4. Create a new DWORD Value named CheckedValue.
5. Double click on it and set the value data to 1.

Now, restart your computer and everything should be working fine.


Alternatively, you can open up notepad, copy-paste following code and save as .reg file and run it.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL]
"CheckedValue"=dword:1

Download: Re-Enable Hidden Folder.zip

Autorun virus disinfection tool

I believe most of you heard or seen the name "jwgkvsq.vmx" before. It's one of the very famous/popular autorun virus infected in your windows, infect and copy itself into any flash drives/harddisk you plug into your computer. I had publish a tutorial on Disable autorun in Windows previously. In this post, I'm going to share a useful tool made by BitDefender for disinfection of this virus from your computer and flash drives.

There are two version of this tool; graphical version and console version. Both are working fine, and graphical version are recommended for most users. In fact, you may only need to use the console version in the case that graphical version does not work. Just double click on the executable to run the program, click on start and the program will perform its' tasks.

Notice that if the tool detects that your system is infected, it will prompt you to allow it perform disinfection steps. Your windows explorer will be terminated in the process, and the windows theme will became abnormal after the process. A normal reboot is recommended after the process.

Download link: BitDefender Autorun Virus Removal.rar