There is a setting in Windows Explorer (Options>Folder and Search
Options>View Tab>Hide protected operating system files). This is enabled by
default to not show certain file types, regardless of if you have hidden
files on or off. Having hidden or system files hidden can also make some
files not show.
"nelsonj3" <nelsonj3@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8E0E364D-850E-498C-833E-ECC372141475@xxxxxx
Quote:
> In many folders on my computer Explorer doesn't see a number of files. It
> will see some of them but not all. Could it be that the hard drive index
> is
> incomplete?
> What is weird is that other programs (Irfanview for one) can see these
> files
> when Explorer can't. Why would that be? If I want to manipulate them I
> have
> to do it from a program not designed for the task.
>