Is there any way?
By Kameko
@Kameko (104)
October 18, 2012 9:36am CST
Recently in my office computer, some folders have turned to shortcut folders as I used a PenDrive and I am unable to open those folders.
I scanned my PC and my Anti Virus couldn't remove it. I tried a lot to remove it from my PC but in vain.
Finally one of my friend has suggested me a way to open the folders.
It's.....
Open the folder from address bar by removing the final extention of the folder path.
It worked for me but it's a temporary solution.
I would like to know a solution to remove it completely from my PC.
Help me please.
Waiting for your reply.
Thanks in advance.
2 responses
@Harold_ks (1673)
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18 Oct 12
It was a virus. Those shortcut folders are pretending to be your folders but the original folders where just hided. I have a lot of friends who have experienced this and they thought that their files were already gone. But this is the solution.
Go to command prompt, then type this attrib -h -r -s /s /d e:\*.* then press enter. Note: the letter e: will be depend on the drive letter of your Pendrive/Flashdrive. so if you're flashdrive is letter d: then this is what you will type in command prompt attrib -h -r -s /s /d d:\*.*
Good luck! Hope it helps! 
@rog0322 (2829)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
19 Oct 12
Hi Harold,
Your command prompt trick is similar to mine, however, I always set the directory first by typing the letter assigned to the one I want to scan followed by a colon, thus g:, hit enter and typing "attrib /s /d -a -r -s -h *.*" and hitting enter again. The -a stands for "not archive" as some virus hide in archived folders too.
I always do that too before running a general virus scan of the drives of the system unit.
