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How To Enable Add/Remove Programs When Disabled By A Virus « pcprofixes — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:41:49 +0000

[...] the error saying that it has been disabled by administrator? Some days back we covered a post on How to enable show hidden files and folders when disabled by a virus, the problem of Disabled Add/Remove program is also a registry tweak caused by some virus and is [...]

By: erwin

erwin — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:26:49 +0000

sir, i have done all your instructions and yet when my pc reboots, the problem still persists. any programs installed or any changes made were not saved at all when i restart my pc.

Any help would be very much appreciated… thanks a lot.

By: rcda

rcda — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:58:58 +0000

Thanks! Finally solved the problem

By: Amir

Amir — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 08:32:16 +0000

Hi
Thanks

But when I change the Checkedvalue Dword to “1″ after a sec back to “0″
And I don’t know how so solve this Problem

Please Help ME

By: pracas upreti

pracas upreti — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:45:00 +0000

hurray!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it works , i googled a lot from many days , finally i was able to make it , thanks a lot ,

By: shagy2you

shagy2you — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:38:24 +0000

thx for pretty program

By: Kutti

Kutti — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:13:31 +0000

OOps ..
the problem persisting ..
Is it means any virus abstructing ?

By: Kutti

Kutti — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:13:31 +0000

OOps ..
the problem persisting ..
Is it means any virus abstructing ?

By: Kutti

Kutti — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:13:31 +0000

OOps ..
the problem persisting ..
Is it means any virus abstructing ?

By: ali

ali — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:56:35 +0000

hi.i do it but after refreshing the value of checkedvalue changes to 0 again.not working for me.help plz

By: VIJAY

VIJAY — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:20:24 +0000

Great solution Keep it up
Tons of thanks

By: Navdeep

Navdeep — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:01:40 +0000

Thanku so much……..

By: UD

UD — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:59:58 +0000

After a long journey to solve this problem… finally i got it…
Thank a lot buddy… u r the best.

By: mycel02

mycel02 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:43:26 +0000

Hi Guys,

Thanks. the first registry option worked for me. Keep up the good work.

By: sovy

sovy — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:56:35 +0000

A lot of thank you,for publish this useful way to enable hidden files and folders,when from windows directly can’t,most common type of viruses can do that is a Trojan type,his do that to cannot open system volume information[spread location] with some programs from DOS or not DOS app. or some location hidden,where can easely autoclone and spread from a partition to another like C,D… etc.Here is a registry key needed!

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden]
“Text”=”@shell32.dll,-30499″
“Type”=”group”
“Bitmap”=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,\
00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,53,00,\
48,00,45,00,4c,00,4c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,34,00,00,\
00
“HelpID”=”shell.hlp#51131″

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\NOHIDDEN]
“RegPath”=”Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Advanced”
“Text”=”@shell32.dll,-30501″
“Type”=”radio”
“CheckedValue”=dword:00000002
“ValueName”=”Hidden”
“DefaultValue”=dword:00000002
“HKeyRoot”=dword:80000001
“HelpID”=”shell.hlp#51104″

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL]
“RegPath”=”Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Advanced”
“Text”=”@shell32.dll,-30500″
“Type”=”radio”
“CheckedValue”=dword:00000001
“ValueName”=”Hidden”
“DefaultValue”=dword:00000002
“HKeyRoot”=dword:80000001
“HelpID”=”shell.hlp#51105″

By: Ashish

Ashish — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:04:06 +0000

really man it worked…!!! thanks a lot

By: Laith

Laith — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:27:09 +0000

Method 1 worked perfectly with me mates, cheers

By: jetmir

jetmir — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:16:48 +0000

hey man this tutorial not work the Checkedvalue not be deleted

By: Moh

Moh — Sun, 10 May 2009 17:38:13 +0000

Neither of these Options is work in my PC what should I do PLEASE help me .These files are very Important to me and I can’t even remmember there names

By: pui

pui — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:38:25 +0000

i dont know what to say beside thank you very very much………

By: caterpillar

caterpillar — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:20:21 +0000

Works perfectly….Thx

By: KrZyT

KrZyT — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:25:35 +0000

You are the MEN…KUDOS

By: Mostafa

Mostafa — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:01:41 +0000

Thank you so much, It works!!!!

By: jason

jason — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:00:51 +0000

….thnk u very much..i though it was a virus..XD
that is useful tips for me…thanx a lot..Godspeed….

By: debu

debu — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:12:29 +0000

..didn’t know it was this easy to solve this problem,though of reinstalling the windows,thanx a lot

By: Ejaz Ahmad

Ejaz Ahmad — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:19:00 +0000

my hidden files option is not applying …

i have scanned my system also

By: jay

jay — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:03:08 +0000

thanks dude it really helps man

By: Chapcuzz

Chapcuzz — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:15:50 +0000

hey…

great post, but…

still not working for me..

the checkedvalue going back to 0 when i closed registry editor..

for info my pc was attacked by sality.y.aa but when i scan with kaspersky it found nothing..

can you solve my problem?..

thx..

By: mike

mike — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:14:52 +0000

Whew! It’s been 2 weeks since I’d had this problem about my Folder Options and it took me a while to search online. And finally, I stumbled upon this webpage, and wham!… problem solved. Thank you sooo much for posting this tip!

Mike. Philippines

By: Shahid Ali Siddique

Shahid Ali Siddique — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:53:30 +0000

Dear Sir,
Thank you for this POST. It really helped me out.

Thank you again,

Pakistan, Karachi