Users folder not visible in explorer,lock on admin's user folder icon?

[frizstyler]

A past virus must have caused this.The C:\Users folder is not visible in explorer for some reason.I can still visit the contents and the pc works fine,but this is not right.Also, there is a lock on my users/alexandros folder icon.Maybe it has something to do?

 

[frizstyler]

Oh,note that i went in and tried to give "users" read and write rights of the users\alexandros folder to see if the lock goes away ,but i saw the processing was taking too much time and also some files had access denied so i quit.I hope i did not mess up

 

[Jacee]

Download UnHide: http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/grinler/unhide.exe
Right click to run as Administrator. Tell me if your folders are visible now.

 

[frizstyler]

no the folder didn't become visible.does it matter that my OS is in Greek?

 

[Jacee]

???Greek..... Most likely possible :shock:

 

[frizstyler]

the folder isn't hidden it's just not visible.i have other hidden files and i can see them when i select to show them. the unhide software indeed made these file un-hidden but not the users folder

 

[frizstyler]

well,now a long time later i got tired of it and solved it. i had to use the cmd in admin privileges and type
attrib -s -h c:users .that made the users folder finally visible and removed those locks from the subfolders
type attrib/? for info