Windows 10: Can't toggle Hidden Files

Hi, Since yesterday I've been unable to toggle hidden files from the View tab of the ribbons. It's unchecked and when I click on it the check mark appears for a second and disappear again.

Only change I've done recently is installed an antivirus (Bitdefender 2016), could that be the cause?

I had this problem before on Windows 8.1 before it got updated and I had to do a reinstall to fix it. I really don't wanna do it again.

:)

 

Free cell and windows 10

Turns out I had also fiddled with the hidden files setting in Windows Explorer: View > Show/Hide > Hidden Items. When I checked that, it hid files like thumbs.db, but it also hid files and folders I actually use! Once I toggled that, I got everything back.

Somehow a lot of the files and folders that I regularly use are also hidden. So I need to go through and fix that (right-click the folder > General tab > Attributes > Uncheck "Hidden"). This "feature" didn't show up until the
migration to Win10.

 

Windows 10's "photos"-app can not delete images from onedrive

Open file explorer then picture where the file is hidden that you can't delete, open view and check hidden items now you can delete that photo...it's hidden that can't be deleted on photo apps...

 

Hello VeeK727, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

You might see if you may be able to toggle it using one of the options in the tutorials below instead.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/9...dows-10-a.html

Show - Hide Hidden Files - Add to Context Menu - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

File Explorer options and ribbon check mark doesn't work for me like I said. I tried the registry key editing and I get this error "Cannot edit Hidden: Error writing the value's new contents", Hidden being the key that needs to be changed.

I'm using Windows 10 btw.

 

How about when using the .bat files in OPTION THREE?

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/9...a.html#option3

 

Disable Bit Defender and see if that is the cause (as you mentioned).

 

@Brink Sorry. Forgot about that. The bat file failed to restart the explorer so I did it manually and when I did it was still the same. No change

 

@Ztruker Yes it worked. Particularly the problem was the Intrusion Detection module of bitdefender. The explanation says that the module blocks attempts to change critical files and registry entries. Disabling that made hide/show hidden files possible.

Thanks to all for your assistance.