Solved Can't unhide a folder

davidjones533 · Jul 3, 2009

I have a new laptop running Vista Home Premium, with the hard drive partitioned into C: and E:

The E: drive is going to store all my pictures and music, so I used the options in the Location tab of the Music and Pictures folders to move them from C:\Users\David\ to the E: drive. However, I accidentally moved Pictures to the root of E:, which caused all sorts of problems. I managed to reset the folder using Regedit and move it over to E:\Pictures, but the Hidden checkbox is now checked and greyed out so I can't change it. When I moved Music over I've had no such problems.

I'm hoping that someone may be able to advise me how to make it so I can uncheck the Hidden box.

Thanks in advance

Brink · Jul 3, 2009

Hello David, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Give this a try to see if it may help.

Open a elevated command prompt.
Use the attrib -s -h +r %USERPROFILE%\Pictures command and press enter

Hope this helps,
Shawn

davidjones533 · Jul 6, 2009

Hi Shawn,

Thank you for your help with this, it worked perfectly!

Dave.

Brink · Jul 6, 2009

You're welcome Dave.

Solved Can't unhide a folder

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