Hidden Files & Folders Box will not stay checked
Friday, May 1, 2009 at 11:30 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by pauly007usa
(178 messages posted)
In folder Options, I cannot get the Hidden File & Folders Box to stay checked. I
check it and close the options box and re-open it and it is un-checked again.
I tried a suggestion (many suggestions) from a sight doing a Google search, however,
that reg change I made also returned back to it’s original setting of 2. The fix
was changing the value of the setting from 2 to 1 in the following entry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Another suggestion was to do the following:
Find the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL
Look at the “CheckedValue” key… This should be a DWORD key. If it isn’t, delete the
key.
Create a new key called “CheckedValue” as a DWORD (hexadecimal) with a value of 1.
Not sure I understand this one, however, the string is not present in my registry
anyways. “Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL”, missing in action ?
Maybe, that’s my problem, it’s missing ? If it matters, this problem is on my laptop
which I am running XP Home, AMD Turion64, about 2g Memory.
Any Help greatly appreciated as I cannot set up my backup programs to copy the files
I need to back up. Thanks.
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