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://dl.dropbox.com/u/17858935/Reset-Hidden_Folders.zip

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. :)

Thanks for viewing .

Aman Dhally