Invisible folders – is this normal?

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Let's first look at why do we need an invisible folder. Hidden directories are used mainly in order to hide information from users. You can make them invisible or, conversely, to restore the hidden folders, i.e. make them visible again. You can use the several ways. However, often hide directories without any user action, let's talk about these situations.

Where do you get the invisible folder?

Invisible folderThe Emergence of hidden directories may be associated with the actions of the user and a virus or the system itself. But in order for it to understand  is there an invisible folder (as well as to determine where suddenly disappeared existed), you need to enable their display in Explorer. To do this, go to “folder options…”, which is in the menu “Service” at the top of the Windows Explorer window. If you do not see this menu, then press the “Alt”. Going to folder options, open the tab “Views” and find in the list below the item “Hidden files and folders”. Were only a little lower to move the tick on “Show hidden files and folders”. However, the system directory, it will still remain invisible. In order to display them, you need to clear the checkbox in the same list with the item “Hide protected operating system files". You need to perform the last action. This is because viruses in most cases hidden files and folders, making them system.

So in your file Explorer will show all invisible folders. This also applies to those directories that were hidden by the users, and those who had hidden viruses.

Make invisible folders visible again

Very often viruses infect files and folders stored on USB flash drives. They hide the original folders, creating your own with the exact same recover foldersNames. And during the opening of the folder, run virus program, which is then captured in the computer. And if the PC will connect to flash drive do not appear invisible to the folder, the virus will certainly get into the system. After all, the user will be blame. To prevent this and keep the necessary information, the need to recover the folders.

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For that directory you need to remove the attribute “Hidden”. Click the mouse (right click) on the desired folder and from the menu select “Properties”. Opens a small window, below which you want to clear the checkbox next to the word “Hidden”.

However, this does not always work if the virus is very good job. To solve the problem and open the invisible folders, you can use the command line. To do this, press the “Win” and “R” at the same time. A window will open where have to enter “CMD” and press “Enter”, or click “OK”. This will open a command prompt.

Restore hidden foldersFurther procedure will be more difficult. First, in the window enter "cd – space – the local drive letter where the folders (C,D, F, etc.) is a colon", press Enter. If directories are in the root directory, then for each folder, enter the following command line: “attrib – space – the name of the folder – space – R – space – S – space – H”, press Enter. Note the “-” before letters, his need to write, too. So we file or folder will remove the attributes “read Only”, “System” and “Hidden”. And if directories are nested in one another, you must first log in to the one containing the target. For this we use “cd – space – the name of the folder” until then, until you find yourself within the need, only then remove the attributes. There are also many programs that make life easier in this matter. One of them – Total Commander. It should also be said that, if you make all actions on the contrary, the folders can be hidden from prying eyes (in the "attrib" instead of “-” you can put a sign “+” - so we hide the folder and make them both system and read-only).


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