Show or hide file name extensions

Windows hides file name extensions, but you can choose to make them visible.

To show or hide file name extensions

1. Open Folder Options by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Folder Options.
2. Click the View tab, and then, under Advanced settings, do one of the following:
   • To show file name extensions, clear the Hide extensions for known file types check box, and then click OK.
   • To hide file name extensions, select the Hide extensions for known file types check box, and then click OK.

Notepad Automatically Launches When Boot Up of my Windows 7 64-Bit Desktop PC

This is an old problem from Windows XP which also occurs in some Windows 7 versions. A step-by-step solution is here:

[.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21787

1. Click Start.
2. Click Computer.
3. Click Organize located on the left side of your Windows 7 upper toolbar.
4. Click Folder and Search Option.
5. Click the View tab.
6. Under Hidden Folders and Files, click the Show folders, files and drives radio button.
7. Click OK and exit.
8. Now, click Start.
9. In the Search field, type desktop.ini and press Enter.
10. Alternatively, you can also go to: C: - Program Data - Microsoft -Windows -Start Menu -Programs – Startup folder.
11. Right-click it and delete it.
12. Now go to: Go to C: - Users – Your_Username - AppData – Roaming – Microsoft – Windows - Start Menu – Startup folder.
13. Again, delete the desktop.ini file.
14. Done! This should stop your notepad from opening by itself!

How To Remove Modern Shortcut Virus in 10 Seconds

Computer Virus infection is only removed through antivirus programs as you know, but this time we are talking about Shortcut Virus which is a new modern virus automatically comes in your computer/USB/SD card and convert your content into a shortcut. Some time this virus also invisible your all contents. The first thing I really got mad for the Shortcut virus problem is not removable by anti-virus programs. When you Scan your Shortcut virus infected storage with anti-virus program they give “No threat detected” which was really confusing and  who didn’t know how to remove this virus, they just format the infected storage, So if you’re helplessness to format your storage then please don’t do this gain, because it is not a solution but if your storage not contain anything important then you should format your secondary storage device not computer storage because formatting also a another method to flush out shortcut virus.
The cause of this virus is internet, third party software’s, USB storage devices and more sources also. Sometime you connect your pen drive to your friend’s computer for exchanging data and you didn’t know is your friend’s computer is already infected by shortcut virus, So when you connect those pendrive to your computer it automatically infect your computer also.

Remove Shortcut Virus From Pen Drive & SD Card

There are 2 methods you can use to remove this virus: using CMD or Software Tool. Before beginning I highly recommend you to First Scan storage with your antivirus and then go for below method. If your pen drive is bootable then it may change to normal.

Method 1 > Using command prompt

Open Command prompt as Administrator (Windows 7 or earlier: Windows key + R > Type CMD & ENTER, Windows 8: Search for “CMD” > Right click to CMD and Select “Run as Administrator” or right click over Start button and select “command prompt (Admin) “)

Connect Your USB storage (Pendrive/SD card) to your Computer.
Scan your storage with your antivirus program (Not compulsory but its effective) > If your antivirus found virus then delete it.
Type in Command prompt :  attrib -h -r -s /s /d <Your USB drive letter>:\*.* (See <Your USB drive letter> from My computer and then type it For ex, if your drive letter is “D” then the command is like: ” attrib -h -r -s /s /d D:\*.* “)
To know about this command Type ” attrib /? ” In CMD.

Now your Shortcut files again convert to normal files. Delete unknown files from your storage after command process completes. I highly recommend you to after removing shortcut virus copy your USB data to your computer > Format the USB storage > Then again re-copy USB data back.

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Method 2 > Using Software

There are multiple software found in web for fixing this problem so i use USB Fix for this tutorial because it works great and freeware.
Download USB fix and install (If your antivirus showing virus in this software then please disable it for a few minutes)
Close all the programs from taskbar, you are running, because when it start it auto close your all programs and you may lose your data.
Connect all of your external storages to computer > Choose clean

It automatically cleans your shortcut virus problems from all USB storages and don’t forget to restart your computer after using this tool because it make changes in windows directory and until you restart your computer, your computer will not work properly.

Flush out from your Computer Hard disk

Removing this virus from your computer feels a little harder than USB, because USB is a small storage, but your computer hard disk is a large storage that you cannot revert changes like a CTRL+Z. The first time when I found this virus in my laptop, I re-install my windows, but after when I found tools for this problem I start using only tools, because re-installing windows waste your lots of time and shortcut virus is not a very big deal as you think.

Fix shortcuts already created on your drive

If your computer files have already converted into shortcut then you should try command prompt same as above method
> Type: attrib -h -r -s /s /d <Your drive letter>: \*.* (For ex. if your drive is C: then the command is “attrib -h -r -s /s /d C:\*.* “)
OR
Use this software: Shortcut Virus Remover
Actually the shortcut virus is running in the task manager process > You may kill that process and your computer doesn’t create again shortcut in real time.
Open task manager > Select process (More detail) > Scroll down below and search “wscript.vbs” process > Select them and end task
Use one of these software’s to remove Wscript from your computer:

• Shortcut Virus Remover
• USB fix

How To Remove Shortcut Virus From Pen drive/Memory Card Simply Without Antivirus?

Many of us had and having this problem. We have some most important data in our  pen drives,  what  will we  do  if all  the  data are loss?  At  some day, all  the  folders which are in

our drive is just showing as shortcuts in Windows (as shown in the above figure).
     This problem may cause not only in pen drives, also in memory sticks, phone memories, external hard disks etc. If we trying to open those folders Windows will show an error that “Shortcut missing…!” We afraid of losing our data and somebody format the drive. But no need to afraid for this and format. Yes, this is a type of virus affection. Just follow the simple steps to remove that shortcuts and retrieve your folders back.
NOTE:No need of any antivirus software to perform this operation.
After plug in your virus affected drive, just press Win key + R to open Run box and type “cmd” and press Enter key. (Without double quotes)
In the opened command prompt, open your drive by enter your drive letter as shown in the below figure. For example, if your drive letter is enter g: and press Enter. (To find your drive letter just open “My Computer” and check your drive icon)
Now type “del *.lnk” and hit Enter.(without double quotes)
Finally type the below command and hit Enter. (without double quotes)
“attrib -s -r -h *.* /s /d /l”

         That’s it, just wait some seconds. Then open and check your drive. Your folders will be retrieved. I hope this is useful for you. If any doubt, comment below. Share with your friends. Don’t forget to subscribe us freely…
NOTE: This will definitely recover all the folders, but it wont completely remove all the virus, better you scan the drive with an antivirus.

How To Remove Shortcut Virus From Pen drive/Memory Card Simply Without Antivirus?

Many of us had and having this problem. We have some most important data in our  pen drives,  what  will we  do  if all  the  data are loss?  At  some day, all  the  folders which are in

our drive is just showing as shortcuts in Windows (as shown in the above figure).
     This problem may cause not only in pen drives, also in memory sticks, phone memories, external hard disks etc. If we trying to open those folders Windows will show an error that “Shortcut missing…!” We afraid of losing our data and somebody format the drive. But no need to afraid for this and format. Yes, this is a type of virus affection. Just follow the simple steps to remove that shortcuts and retrieve your folders back.
NOTE:No need of any antivirus software to perform this operation.
After plug in your virus affected drive, just press Win key + R to open Run box and type “cmd” and press Enter key. (Without double quotes)
In the opened command prompt, open your drive by enter your drive letter as shown in the below figure. For example, if your drive letter is enter g: and press Enter. (To find your drive letter just open “My Computer” and check your drive icon)
Now type “del *.lnk” and hit Enter.(without double quotes)
Finally type the below command and hit Enter. (without double quotes)
“attrib -s -r -h *.* /s /d /l”

         That’s it, just wait some seconds. Then open and check your drive. Your folders will be retrieved. I hope this is useful for you. If any doubt, comment below. Share with your friends. Don’t forget to subscribe us freely…
NOTE: This will definitely recover all the folders, but it wont completely remove all the virus, better you scan the drive with an antivirus.

Shortcut virus on Flash drive/ Memory card

Remove shortcut virus on flash drives/ Memory card:

Many people are shocked to see their folder and files in flash drive are converted into shortcuts and they simply format their memory cards without any hesitation.

But many people are unaware about the fact that still they can recover their files from there Memory card / Flash drive.

So here we suggest a easiest way to recover all your files from your flash drive or memory card without using any special software.

Here is the simple steps:

Step 1: Open command prompt by typing "cmd" in Run command.

Step 2: Now type the following command without any errors

              attrib -h -r -s /s /d g:\*.*

(Replace g:\ with your own flash drive or memory card drive letter )

Step 3: Now open your memory card and see all your files and folder without shortcuts

(But we strongly suggest copy all the files in your flash drive / memory card and format it after performing the above step)