Wed 21 May 2003
If you try to empty your recycle bin, you might get file errors stating a file does not exist etc..
Start a command Prompt and change into your recycled directory.
cd recycled
or
cd recycler
Then type the following.
attrib -h -s /s
This should revel some hidden files. I found deleting these files and then rebooting cleaned everything up.
Cheers…
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November 25th, 2003 at 11:03 pm
Hi,
By mistake, at the dos cmd prompt (C:\>) I typed the command “attrib -h -s /s”… Now my desktop.ini file opens whenever I’m rebooting the computer and some of my desktop settings have changed… And who knows what else has been changed?!?
How can I reverses the command “attrib -h -s /s” given in the root directory?!?
November 27th, 2003 at 7:27 am
Hi, by typing this command at the root of your c drive, you have made all system and hidden files visible.
The only way to reverse this is to get a directory listing of all the system files on another system and go through them one by one resetting the attributes. Type the following on a good computer
dir c:\ /a:hs /s>files.txt
You will end up with a text file ‘files.txt’ that has a listing of all the system and hidden files.
You will then need to find these files on your system and set the attributes with
attrib +s +h filename.ext
For the destktop.ini you would use navigate to where it is and type
attrib +s +h desktop.ini
The only other alternative it to reinstall you OS.