Are you among those who are not able to access or see your folder options under File Menu-->Tools in Windows Explorer on your Windows XP or Windows 7? This problem of hidden or disabled folder options occur normally due to malicious virus activity.
The virus creates an entry in registry to disable “Folder Options” in Windows explorer.
Let us see how we can fix it.
Fix:
In most of the cases, even if the virus is been already removed by your anti-virus program, it doesn’t restore the registry back to the original state. Also anti-virus usually does not delete the registry entry created by the virus.
For restoring the registry settings,follow the steps given below
Enable your folder options in explorer.
1. Go to Start > RUN
2. Type regedit and press enter.
if your registry editor does not work then have a look at Enable regedit when disabled by Administratpr
3. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Policies > Explorer
4. On the right side of the screen, you can see some registry entry names, out of them, right-click onNoFolderOptions and click Modify option.
5.A new small screen pops up, on this screen, sen the value data field as 0 (zero).Press OK.
That’s it but it requires reboot. Trouble Fixed.
To be on the safer side and not to end up doing unwanted changes yourself ,you can also download the registry file and double click it to add it to the registry.
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