Script to reset “Hidden files and folders” to normal using PowerShell

Hi,

yesterday one of my users laptop get infected with virus. After removal of virus i saw that “Virus” hide every file and folder in the laptop.  It was quite a pain to “Choose file and folder” right click on it, choose properties and un-tick the hidden option.

Then i decide to write a script which can do this for me.

Download it from here : http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Reset-Hidden-files-and-27d70766
so here is the script:

## Change "D:\P-temp" with your folder path
$Filepath = Get-ChildItem -Recurse -path "D:\P-Temp\" -Force 
$HSfiles = $Filepath | where { $_.Attributes -match "Hidden"}
$HSfiles
foreach ( $Object in $HSfiles ) {
       $Object.Attributes = "Archive"
       }
### End of script #####

This script search for “Hidden file and folder” in the path you defined in $Filepath and the it sets the “Archive” attribute on every file and folder it found.

Screen Shots:

You can see that the i highlighted the “hidden” files and folder below.



we run the Script  and it done something ;-)



You can see that , all hidden folder are back to normal. :)



Download it from here : http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Reset-Hidden-files-and-27d70766

Thanks for viewing .
Aman Dhally