Windows 10: Making a file visible

Hi

My install of Sony Vegas is not working; it crashes when performing a render. I understand this is not an app-specific board, but I have narrowed down the issue, and am thinking this might be a W10 thing.

The crash spits out an error, which tells me that an exe file in the app's PFiles dir is not visible. If I nav to that dir, and r-click on the file and select properties, it says: Description: FileIOSurrogate.exe (not visible)

I am wondering if there is a way to tell W10 (Home, BTW) to change the not visible property to visible.

A google search yields too many results about Windows not showing file extensions, which is not the issue I have here.

Thanks in advance.

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No Icons visible in task bar, Win 10

Hi Richard,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community, we appreciate your interest in Windows 10.

As you are facing issues with icons in the Task bar after November update, do let us know the following:

• Is this issue confined only with icons in the Task bar?
• What happens when you try to click on those icons?
• What exactly do you mean by: "they are there but not visible"?

Method 1: If you are referring to showing up of different icons in Task in System tray, I suggest you to try the below and check if it helps.

• Press Windows key from the Keyboard, type
  Turn system icons On or Off and select it.
• Try to turn on the icons that are visible.

Method 2:

Step 1: If not, I suggest you to place the computer in safe mode and check if the icons are visible to access.

Refer: Start your PC in safe mode in Windows 10


If the issue still persists,

Step 2: This issue might have occurred due to corrupted or missing system files after the update. I suggest you to place the computer in normal mode and try to perform SFC scan.

Steps: Place the computer in normal mode.

• Press Windows + R keys to open
  Run command.
• Type msconfig and press
  Enter.
• In the System Configuration
  window, click on General tab.
• Select Start-up selection as Normal startup, click on Apply and Ok.
• Follow onscreen instructions.

Perform SFC scan, System File Checkeris a utility in Windows that allows users to scan for corruptions in Windows system files and restore corrupted files.

Follow the below steps:

• Right click on the Start button, click on
  Command Prompt (Admin).
• Type “sfc /scannow” without the quotes and hit
  Enter.
• After the scan, restart the computer and check for the issue.

Hope it helps. Reply to the post with an updated status of this issue with required information, we will be happy to help you.

 

Need to make ProgramData visible

Hello,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

I understand that you want to make the ProgramData folder visible. We will help you.

As per the description I understand that even after setting as show hidden files also you are unable to locate the folder.

This issue could have caused due to user profile corruption also.

• Try to directly type the folder location in the file explorer address bar
  and check if it is able to access the folder.
• Open File Explorer and type C:\ProgramData
  and hit Enter.

I suggest you to try creating a new user account
and check if issue persists.

Click on the below link to check how to create new user account in Windows 10

Microsoft Support link: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/create-a-local-user-account-in-windows-10

Keep us informed if the issue is resolved. We are glad to help you further.

 

making file lists

ok i have tried it and i got it to work thanks

but my next problem is it only lists the folders not the files??