Get familiar with Windows : Step 1 - View superhidden or System Protected files

This is the first among a series of posts I am going to make on the following days to let you get the right grip about administering your Windows Computer. The part starts with how to see the files and folders that were hidden from you by Windows for some reason.The series is actually inspired from the recent one done by Samanathon on Starting your Day with a fresh Computer. He did a good job and I am a regular visitor of Saman's Blog thats why I also decided to do so.

The List of Posts on the topic - Get familiar with Windows. This is a series and please read the rest of the posts given below. Please let me know your opinion and suggestions by posting comments
Get familiar with Windows : Step 1 - View superhidden or System Protected files
Get familiar with Windows : Step 2 - Get access to all Folders and Files
Get familiar with Windows : Step 3 - Whats inside the protected Folders
Get familiar with Windows : Step 4 - Use dllcache to learn more and restore system files

A Super Hidden or a Protected Syetem File is a file that is normally not shown in the Windows Explorer even if you have enabled Show Hidden files (Tools>>Folder Options>>View>>Show Hidden Files and Folders in Windows Explorer). This is done because if some of these files are deleted or changed a fatal error may occur to Windows. Some of such folders are :

• C:\Windows\system32\dllcache
• System Volume Information - this is in all the drives
• Recycler - which is also in all the drives
• 

So the first step involved is to make Windows show all the Super Hidden files. This can be done in two ways. One is directly through Windows Explorer Tools>>Folder Options and the other is through registry. So the former being easier and straight forward I'll discuss it first.

In Windows Explorer from Tools (Alt+T) menu take Folder Options and take the View tab.Here make sure that you have selected Show Hidden Files and Folders and that you have unchecked Hide Protected operating system files options. Click Apply and then OK. This will enable you to see system files that had previously been hidden from your view.

The second and more twisted way is through Registry Editing.(It is recommended that you read the following posts before you go into the registryThe Introduction to Windows Registry , Know how to Back up you Registry and Get ready before going to Registry ). All those posts will help you if you are new to Registry. The steps involved to do the above work through registry is

1 . Run ( WIN+R ) regedit and open registry editor.

2 . Go to the Key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced.In there you will see a Registry DWORD named ShowSuperHidden Make the value 1 instead of 0.

3 . Now all you need to do is to restart Windows Explorer. to do so you can goto Start>>Shut Down and Click Cancel while holding down SHIFT+CTRL+ALT. Now press ALT+CTRL+DEL this will bring Task Manager. Take File>>New Task and type explorer and press Enter. Now if you got to Any drive you can see the previously Hidden files there. Note that you will still need to enable Show Hidden files option in Folder Option.

Related Posts :

• Get familiar with Windows : Step 2 - Get access to all Folders and Files
• Learn to delete the recent Run drop down List from Registry

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Digg is here with improved features while MyBlogLog gets added to Yahoo

This is a quick post just before I leave for my class. Digg has added many new features to the user pages. The main changes are that

* Digg will notify you via email when certain activities happen, such as when someone adds you as a friend or a story you submit becomes popular. You can control what emails you want to receive in the Email Settings section of your Digg User Profile.
* You can easily find your friends' Profiles on Digg by searching for them by their email address. If you don't want to enable others to search for your Digg Profile by your email address, or if you want to manage what personal information to display in your Digg Profile, you can reflect this in your Privacy Settings.

So that was all about Digg.

Now it has been a long tiime since MyBlogLog have been taken over by Yahoo. Now Just like Google integrated Blogger account with Google account, Yahoo is going on merging MBL account with Yahoo username. You have your choice to set the MBL profile as default Yahooprofile and use the pic provided to be used over entire Yahoo network.

Related Posts :

• MBL tracking you through widget?

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