Missing “Folder Options” in Windows Xp?

By VJ | Jan 12, 2008

Recently, I came across with a virus, which simply makes you “Folder Options” invisible, and creating great troubles for me. Firstly I thought that it was some windows file that could have gone corrupt, and then i thought of running the setup once again. But when I saw what changes have been made to my registry, I saw a small change, a new DWORD value was created. Changing the value did the trick and i was successfully able to see the Folder Options and do the desired changes. If you are facing this problem too, Here is what I did.

  1. Go to Start –> Run, type Regedit.
  2. Go to HKEY CURRENT USER / SOFTWARE / MICROSOFT / WINDOWS /
    CURRENTVERSION / POLICIES / EXPLORER
  3. You will find a DWORD value “NoFolderOptions” and its value as “1“.
  4. Change its value from “1” to “0“.

The folder options should now work properly. If in case you need to hide Folder Options then this is a cool trick as well.

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10 Comments so far
  1. Madhur Kapoor January 13, 2008 2:02 pm

    You are lucky buddy. When i was infected and i tried this , it didnt work. I had to format my computer . I think it is mainly caused by Ravmon virus.

  2. Nirmal January 22, 2008 12:51 pm

    Never happened this to me. But the work around is good.

  3. kanak bhandari January 28, 2008 8:10 pm

    hey this is a easy way to do it if you know the exact registry settings. I was using gpedit.msc ( group policy editor , microsoft console ) in run and then enabling the option.

  4. George February 16, 2008 5:20 am

    I haven’t found the DWORD in my PC. I’m afraid this procedure doesn’t work in all cases resulting the removal of folder option…

  5. VJ February 17, 2008 7:55 am

    Well, i must tell you that Registry is available in all Windows, And this trick has been tested on XP, and it will work in all XP systems.

  6. Nagendra kumar.Ch February 26, 2008 3:02 am

    Hi this is very easy to do, By this i can see folder options button again.

    Thanks & Regards
    Nagendra

  7. Deepak Rohilla February 26, 2008 5:37 am

    Dear sir

    I am going this path. HKEY CURRENT USER/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/WINDOWS/CURRENT VERSION/POLLICIES/EXPLORER
    But DWARD value “no folder option” not found

  8. VJ February 26, 2008 11:53 am

    @ deepak : You might not be able top see this value, You can create it, so as to hide or unhide the Folder Options

    @ Nagendra : Yes, this is easy, if you only know registry, But in case you dont knoe registry well, You have to take care that you dont mess around with it.

  9. abrar March 5, 2008 7:07 pm

    thanx a llloooooottttttt……

  10. Amit March 14, 2008 8:16 pm

    i am able to find my folder options in toolbar but he is not able to apply and not shown hidden files and folder

    amit

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