re: changing system and hidden files in \Windows folders Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 4:31 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Keith Stanier (1253 messages posted) Norm wrote: |In my dual boot system, capable of booting to either Windows 98SE or Windows XP, |using attrib.exe, I am able to change the system and hidden file attributes of files |in the \Windows folder and its subfolders in the Windows 98SE partition, but not |in the Windows XP partition. Hi Norm. Well the normal attributes in Windows Explorer don't allow you to change to file or folders System attributes in either Win98 or XP. You could try Run: attrib c:\windows\foldername -s The attributes use r - Read Only, h - Hidden, s - System so -r will remove the Read Only attrib and +r will make it Read Only. The same goes to s and h, + makes and - removes. Why do you want to do this anyway? You can set the folder options for both Explorers so it shows Hidden and System folders. Written in response to: changing system and hidden files in \Windows folders (Norm: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 8:17 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] changing system and hidden files in \Windows folders (Norm: Tue, Sep 1, 2009, 8:17 pm) re: changing system and hidden files in \Windows folders (Keith Stanier: Wed, Sep 2, 2009, 4:31 am) re: changing system and hidden files in \Windows folders (Ricer46: Wed, Sep 2, 2009, 6:23 am) re: changing system and hidden files in \Windows folders (Norm: Wed, Sep 2, 2009, 11:16 am) re: changing system and hidden files in \Windows folders (Keith Stanier: Wed, Sep 2, 2009, 11:47 am) re: changing system and hidden files in \Windows folders (Norm: Wed, Sep 2, 2009, 2:41 pm) re: changing system and hidden files in \Windows folders (Ricer46: Thu, Sep 3, 2009, 6:52 am) re: changing system and hidden files in \Windows folders (Norm: Thu, Sep 3, 2009, 11:05 am) re: changing system and hidden files in \Windows folders (Ricer46: Thu, Sep 3, 2009, 12:35 pm) re: changing system and hidden files in \Windows folders (Ricer46: Wed, Sep 2, 2009, 12:23 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum