Windows Explorer prompts "show files" for all folders

ry1223 · 31st March 2004

My problem is that my windows explorer (am using '98 SE) is behaving oddly these days - after I got infected by a malware. The problem is that in all folders I open, I am prompted to click on "show files" before the contents would be displayed.

Before the malware infection (it's already gone), only the system folders would prompt me to click "show files". It's very inconvenient now having to click show files for all folders I open.

Hope you can help me fix this problem of mine. Thanks.

**markp62** · 31st March 2004

Right click on a blank area in the folder, then View, uncheck As Webpage.

ry1223 · 5th April 2004

Thanks for the reply but it didn't work. Same problem still there.

merlin · 5th April 2004

Hi, Have you tried any registry repair tools to clear the problem ?
regards

**sparrow** · 5th April 2004

Have you tried (in explorer) view>folder options, click the view tab and make sure NOTHING is hidden, and extentions are shown also?

Welshjim · 5th April 2004

ry1223--
See
http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBF/TIP2800/rh2829.htm
Or just renaming the folder.htt file in the Windows\System and Windows\System32 folders will sometimes do the trick.