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Win XP not letting me view hidden folders.....
I am the main user on my PC which I built. I need to edit a CFG
file which is in the hidden folder APPLICATIONS DATA (a folder within Documents and settings) So I use the usual method to unhide hidden folders, by going to TOOLS/Folder Options/View, and clicking the radio button for "show hidden files...." I click APPLY follewed by OK. The CFG file which must be there does not appear. If I go through the same procedure, I find that the HIDE FILES radio button is again selected....it didn't really change! I cannot even get APPLICATIONS DATA to appear (I think by default it is a hidden folder), but I was able to get around that by opening explorer and tying the path up in the command line. I am using Avast! antivirus, always kept updated, and it has been doing a good job. But I wonder if a virus is hiding itself from view by not letting users unhide files? |
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Win XP not letting me view hidden folders.....
geronimo wrote:
I am the main user on my PC which I built. I need to edit a CFG file which is in the hidden folder APPLICATIONS DATA (a folder within Documents and settings) So I use the usual method to unhide hidden folders, by going to TOOLS/Folder Options/View, and clicking the radio button for "show hidden files...." I click APPLY follewed by OK. The CFG file which must be there does not appear. If I go through the same procedure, I find that the HIDE FILES radio button is again selected....it didn't really change! I cannot even get APPLICATIONS DATA to appear (I think by default it is a hidden folder), but I was able to get around that by opening explorer and tying the path up in the command line. I am using Avast! antivirus, always kept updated, and it has been doing a good job. But I wonder if a virus is hiding itself from view by not letting users unhide files? There are huge Windows XP groups with Microsoft MVPs and stuff. FWIW. I suspect it has to do with operator rights, like whether you are Administrator. -- Are you a blissfully ignorant voter? Do you buy stuff made by faceless workers you will never meet or even chat with on the Internet? Your fellow citizen, not a politician, will safeguard democracy. Base trade on natural resources, not slave labor. |
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Win XP not letting me view hidden folders.....
In article , geronimo
says... I am the main user on my PC which I built. I need to edit a CFG file which is in the hidden folder APPLICATIONS DATA (a folder within Documents and settings) So I use the usual method to unhide hidden folders, by going to TOOLS/Folder Options/View, and clicking the radio button for "show hidden files...." I click APPLY follewed by OK. The CFG file which must be there does not appear. If I go through the same procedure, I find that the HIDE FILES radio button is again selected....it didn't really change! I cannot even get APPLICATIONS DATA to appear (I think by default it is a hidden folder), but I was able to get around that by opening explorer and tying the path up in the command line. I am using Avast! antivirus, always kept updated, and it has been doing a good job. But I wonder if a virus is hiding itself from view by not letting users unhide files? The Application Data is a private folder in each users account and unless you are the administrator, you would need to have rights to access the documents folder of the user account you want to modify. On a system with even just one user account, there's two applications data folders. Within each of those folders, there's Local, LocalLow and Roaming and the config file could've appeared in any one of these. If it's on Vista, it's even more complicated if the application runs in compatibility mode (selected or not) and it gets stuck in the VirtualStore version of Application Data. -- Conor I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams |
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Win XP not letting me view hidden folders.....
I goofed...did not state explicitly that I and all the other users on my PC are administrators. I had one other user, also an administrator, try this same unhide procedure, and he had the same results. Its not just me. Well, this is MS flight simulator file, and I am told that FSX always puts FSX.CFG under the "All" users folder. Should not ANY adiministrator be able to change (unhide) files that are not Windows protected files? Is there something more that has to be set to allow full administrative rights, even if one is an administrator? On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:53:00 -0000, Conor wrote: In article , geronimo says... I am the main user on my PC which I built. I need to edit a CFG file which is in the hidden folder APPLICATIONS DATA (a folder within Documents and settings) So I use the usual method to unhide hidden folders, by going to TOOLS/Folder Options/View, and clicking the radio button for "show hidden files...." I click APPLY follewed by OK. The CFG file which must be there does not appear. If I go through the same procedure, I find that the HIDE FILES radio button is again selected....it didn't really change! I cannot even get APPLICATIONS DATA to appear (I think by default it is a hidden folder), but I was able to get around that by opening explorer and tying the path up in the command line. I am using Avast! antivirus, always kept updated, and it has been doing a good job. But I wonder if a virus is hiding itself from view by not letting users unhide files? The Application Data is a private folder in each users account and unless you are the administrator, you would need to have rights to access the documents folder of the user account you want to modify. On a system with even just one user account, there's two applications data folders. Within each of those folders, there's Local, LocalLow and Roaming and the config file could've appeared in any one of these. If it's on Vista, it's even more complicated if the application runs in compatibility mode (selected or not) and it gets stuck in the VirtualStore version of Application Data. |
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