Unhide Operating System Files In Vista
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Windows Vista by default hides the operating system files so you can’t delete or change them, but you can make them visible again in Explorer by changing a few simple settings. Here’s how.
Right click Start and select Explore.
In Windows Explorer, select Tools.
Click Folder Options.
Click the View tab.
Under Hidden Files and Folder, click the option button to show hidden files and folders. Now all the hidden files are visible.
While your in this screen also uncheck (Hide extensions for known file types) so your file extensions are always visible.
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Lorenzo W. said:
Have you noticed that, after fixing all the hidden file crap that MS foists on us by default, the commmand prompt (or the lousy excuse for one) that comes with Vista, STILL won’t show certain system files? Open the “DOS” prompt and go to C:\. Dir, and you won’t see hiberfil.sys, pagefile.sys, only config.sys. I suspect that other hidden system files are still hidden in the command prompt, too. This sucks. Any known cures?
Regards,
LorenzoNovember 29th, 2007 at 8:11 pm -
Lorenzo W. said:
P.S. Nor does the Vista “DOS Prompt” include the “attrib” command, so there’s no changing file attributes now (such as “hidden” and “system” and “read only”). At least not from the Dos Prompt. A number of other once-standard DOS commands have been scrapped.
Microsoft must protect us from ourselves, you see.
Lorenzo
November 29th, 2007 at 8:21 pm -
Lorenzo W. said:
OOPS! My bad re the “attrib” command. Brain fart. It’s there, I must have dreamed otherwise.
Sorry,
Lorenzo
November 29th, 2007 at 8:26 pm -
Kevin said:
@ Lorenzo, They also won’t show up after enabling show super hidden files, http://www.vistarevisited.com/2007/11/08/how-to-show-vistas-super-hidden-files/
Very strange.
Kevin.December 3rd, 2007 at 6:40 pm -
Dom said:
Try to type:
dir c:\ /a:hs
and you will see all the hidden/system fileMarch 29th, 2008 at 12:48 pm -
kishan said:
this isnt what i was asking for an aswer for what i want to know is how do you move them im a admin and still its saying unserfishunt rights
May 27th, 2008 at 7:46 am -
kishan said:
if you have an idea email me on kishpom@hotmail.co.uk
May 27th, 2008 at 7:47 am -
Kevin said:
@ kishan, I’m really not sure what your asking, maybe you could clarify your question.
Kevin.May 27th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
I was stuck to 9 MB/s while copying files from my Server...
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