Show or Hide Selected Files from the Right-click menu

In File Explorer, you can hide or show selected files using the “Hide selected files” toggle button in the Ribbon interface.

Show or Hide selected files via the right-click menu

Contents of the REG file

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFileSystemObjects\shell\Windows.HideSelected]

"Description"="@shell32.dll,-37575"

"ExplorerCommandHandler"="{0947c622-f98a-48a5-9df7-60e5fe202e07}"

"Icon"="imageres.dll,-5314"

"MUIVerb"="Show / Hide selected files"

You can also make your own registry file by copying the above contents to Notepad and saving it with the .REG extension.

To remove the hidden attribute for a file or selected files to unhide them, enable “Show hidden files, folders and drives” option in the Folder Options dialog. Then select the files for which you want to remove the “H” attribute, right-click on the selection and click “Show / Hide selected files” context menu entry. It toggles the “Hidden” attribute for those files.