Show super hidden files

Posted on February 26th, 2007 by Jason

Even if you turn on show hidden files in Windows Explorer some files will remain hidden. These files are super hidden. Set the registry value below to 1.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
“SuperHidden” = 1

You will need to reboot after changing this setting for it to work.

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  2. Amel on 03 Sep 2007 at 9:59 pm #

    I want to show my files that Superhidden but I dont know what I have to do. My Flash disk have been clean up by the anti-virus (once of anti-virus).
    after that, all of my files was gone, but the byte is still fill (full).
    Please help me to show them again.

    thanks.

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