Re: Hiding/unhiding files from the desktop

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From: Lemon Jelly (hhh_at_aaa.com)
Date: 05/23/04 

Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 09:49:19 +0100

Lemon Jelly - typed:
> Hi
>
> I would like to be able to toggle hide/unhide files in Explorer by
> clicking on one of 2 icons on my desktop. I presume the easiest way
> would be to merge silent reg files to do this in a similar way that
> I've done to switch on/off the P&F Viewer.
>
> I've tried searching through the registry, to identify the keys but
> haven't been able to trace them. I then ran Sysinternal's Regmon but I
> don't have the knowledge to be able to filter out all the continuous
> stuff that gets listed (I've even tried explorer.exe in the Include
> field). I presume it's possible to either change the settings for the
> logged-on user or as a global feature. Any help here would be much
> appreciated.
>
> Regards

Well, I obviously didn't try hard enough. I retried using Regmon & this
time checked for changes by refreshing the view in Regedit which I
didn't do the 1st time! The key is:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Ad
vanced]
"Hidden"=dword:00000001
Which hides hidden files. Replacing the dword with 2, unhides.

Because clicking any icon on the Desktop removes the focus from the last
accessed/viewed folder, I have to refresh the folder(s) in turn. Anyone
know of a method to automatically refresh all open Explorer windows?

Regards

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