Click Yes.Ī dialog box then displays saying the information has been successfully added to the registry. Click the Unblock button.Ĭlick OK to close the Properties dialog box.Ī confirmation dialog box displays to make sure you really want to add the information in the. The Properties dialog box for the foldersettings.reg file displays. To be able to merge the foldersettings.reg file, right-click on the file and select Properties from the popup menu. If you encounter this dialog box instead, click OK to close it. Or, you may see an error dialog box like the following. We have scanned this file for viruses and then used it to fix this problem, and the file does not seem to be infected or corrupted in any way. NOTE: When you try to merge the foldersettings.reg file, you may encounter a problem opening the file, and see the following Security Warning dialog box. The fix in this registry entry file can be applied in Windows XP as well as in Windows 7/ Vista. In Windows Explorer, navigate to where you saved the foldersettings.reg file, right-click on the file and select Merge from the popup menu. txt extension to the file, because it is essentially a text file. NOTE: When you save the foldersettings.reg file, Windows may add a. To fix the corrupted Hidden files and folders options, right-click on the following link and select Save link as (in Firefox) or Save Target as (in Internet Explorer) to save the foldersettings.reg file. To close the Registry Editor, select Exit from the File menu. Some viruses may even remove the Hidden Files and Folders options completely from the View tab of the Folder Options dialog box. NOTE: Many viruses disable or corrupt the Hidden Files and Folders options so their hidden malicious executable or script will not be displayed in Explorer.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Advanced \ Folder \ Hidden \ NOHIDDEN HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Advanced \ Folder \ Hidden \ SHOWALL If your Hidden Files and Folders options are corrupt, the CheckedValue registry value of the following registry keys may have been modified. On the Run dialog box, enter “ regedit” (without the quotes) in the Open edit box, and click OK. To view the registry keys affected, select Run from the Start menu. The lesson I’ve learned is that you have any valuable information that you think will do you any good to store in these fields, then you’d better think again.Both radio buttons can be checked at once if your system has been infected by malware, which modifies some keys in the registry. The long and short of it is that relatively little thought has gone into the long term (or even short term when you consider the difference in Windows XP as opposed to Windows 7) user that makes the mistake of depending on the myriad of detail fields and sub-fields in any version of Windows. I won’t even go into all the changes in sub-fields of the file or file folder “details”, because those changes make even less sense.
Unless the file is from a Microsoft Office application, then the “Date Created” is maintained and only the “Date Modified” is changed to the moment of the file copy. Files from all other applications get BOTH fields changed to the moment of copying. Only if you copy the JPEG to another location - then it changes the “Date Created”, but NOT the “Date Modified”. That’s all well and good, but it DOESN’T change that field if the file is a JPEG. If you change ANY details in the “Comments”, “Keywords”, etc-ad nauseum, then it changes the “Date Modified” timestamp to the day, date and time that change was made. Date Created and Date Modified, are two DIFFERENT things, depending on what KIND of file you’re talking about. Here’s one BIG example, among at least half a dozen that I’ve noticed. The only thing that you can really count on being a “constant” in the details listings is the “filename” field. After hours spent with trying to understand the logic behind the “what and why” of information that is saved in Windows File Explorer (I’ve been a Windows user for nearly 25 years), I’ve come to conclusion that “logic” has very little to do with it.