Vista - Hidden Files and Folders Option - Add or Remove

Thank you for the help, restored my hidden folders option with the download.
got the two black boxes. I managed to correct the problem by removing "group" and replacing it with "radio" as instructed.

Thank you for also confirming this Ian. I will add it to the tutorial to help others with the same problem.

Shawn

Hi y'all!


For me it all didn't help. When applying the .reg file from here I only got one black square followed by "Hidden" (although I have a german version of vista where it should be "Versteckte Dateien und Ordner").

I saw the key "hidden" and it's subkeys "showall" and "nohidden" were completely blank and so I asked a friend to export his settings (from a XP client lol) including the subkeys and it worked! I found a thousand pages handling this but no one had the regfile with the subkeys included.

I hope this will help anyone, please post if it worked (when none of the other patches helped)

Thanks in advance!

Hi Genius777, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Some folks would just need to use Radio instead of Group in the Manual Section (step 6) to not have the black square.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

I have already tried that, I just forgot to mention. When I changed it to "Radio" it was completely gone - just like if set to "".

Thanks for helping even users that don't read whole threads.
Great support here!

No problem Genius. You might consider doing a System Restore using a restore point dated before this problem. This tutorial will show you how to if needed.

System Restore - How to

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Well actually I did read the whole thread The problem persisted since months, so a system restore was not applicable. Again, when I changed "Type"to "radio" the option was completely gone. Just the same as if "Type" is set blank.

When I changed it to "group" it was only one black square followed by "Hidden" (not "Hidden Files and Folders" or "Versteckte Dateien und Ordner" as it should be in my german vista version.)

The reason was that the subkeys "SHOWALL" and "NOHIDDEN" were also blanked on my system. If I could have downloaded a .reg file including these subkeys from here it would have helped me instantly, thats why I posted a .reg file including these subkeys.

I hope it's now clearer, sorry if my explanations were (are?! ) too weird.

No problem Genius. I updated the tutorial to incuded the entire Hidden hey with the subkeys SHOWALL and NOHIDDEN with the reg file now.

Thank you,
Shawn