Comments on: Restore "Show Hidden Files and Folders" Option in Vista

By: UnNown

UnNown — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:27:14 +0000

ThankYou Very much it help alot

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:42:55 +0000

thnx bro ..thx alot … it workd..

By: vijay

vijay — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:18:50 +0000

Pls HELP………

Modified the value for the key “CheckedValue” to 1 and “DefaultValue” to 2.

But it is not getting changed to the value for the key “CheckedValue” to 1. Instead it remains to be the same 0.

How can i change the “CheckedValue” to 1 ?……..

By: frank

frank — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:00:23 +0000

i’ve tried all the options suggested above, however, they are not working. what do you suggest?

By: bubba damage

bubba damage — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:53:42 +0000

thanks for the info came very good, very little info on the web about a
“Show Hidden Files and Folders” “no radio” box problem came in very handy
for a post at cnet.com

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL
change “type = group” to “type = radio” or “type = checkbox”

he had a group instead of a radio box can be very confusing even for me

thankyou heaps.

By: Arik M

Arik M — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:20:33 +0000

Thx guys, it worked like a charm.

By: Shafeek

Shafeek — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:38:52 +0000

Thanks you guys.
your posts really helped me out a great deal.

By: MRest

MRest — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:33:07 +0000

Worked for me. Thank you all!

By: Nayebi

Nayebi — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:28:55 +0000

You can simply cut the text below between lines (excluding dash marks) and save it to a file, say fix.reg, by a text editor like Notepad and then double click on the saved file to restore the missed part of the registry.

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden]
“Text”=”@shell32.dll,-30499″
“Type”=”group”
“Bitmap”=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,\
00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,53,00,\
48,00,45,00,4c,00,4c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,34,00,00,\
00
“HelpID”=”shell.hlp#51131″

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\NOHIDDEN]
“RegPath”=”Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Advanced”
“Text”=”@shell32.dll,-30501″
“Type”=”radio”
“CheckedValue”=dword:00000002
“ValueName”=”Hidden”
“DefaultValue”=dword:00000002
“HKeyRoot”=dword:80000001
“HelpID”=”shell.hlp#51104″

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL]
“RegPath”=”Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Advanced”
“Text”=”@shell32.dll,-30500″
“Type”=”radio”
“CheckedValue”=dword:00000001
“ValueName”=”Hidden”
“DefaultValue”=dword:00000002
“HKeyRoot”=dword:80000001
“HelpID”=”shell.hlp#51105″
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By: Erwan

Erwan — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:22:57 +0000

It works !

Thanks so much to all and jd2066 for the registry export

Indeed several values had dispeared !