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"Show Hidden Files and Folders Group Policy"
I have a small Windows 2003 AD domain. Does win 2003 have a Ad GP to enable the "show hidden files and folders" on users workstations?
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CLASS USER
CATEGORY "System"
CATEGORY "Folders Files"
POLICY "Hide\Show Hidden Files"
EXPLAIN "This setting will allow for you to set the show and hide files and folders by default Keep in mind that this information will be stored in cleartext in the systems registry."
KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Window
PART "SetThis" NUMERIC REQUIRED TXTCONVERT
VALUENAME "Hidden"
MIN 1 MAX 2 DEFAULT "2"
END PART
END POLICY
END CATEGORY
END CATEGORY
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- Save the text with an ".adm" extention and place it somewhere.
( We save our custom ADM's here: C:\WINDOWS\inf\ADM Templates )
- Create a GPO called "HiddenFiles" then open it up and add this template to your GPO
- Right click the "Administrative Templates" -> View -> Filtering -> "Only show policy settings that can be fully managed"
- Then go into your "User Configuration" -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Folders Files -> "Hide\Show Hidden Files"
The only catch with using unmanaged ADM's is they need to be reversed not disabled when you want to remove them from your system.
If you set ( Hidden = 1 )
You will need to set ( Hidden = 0 )
Nick