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Most of the viruses disable Folder options on the machine to restrict user from showing hidden files. Even if you successfully remove the virus, the folder options ate still not enabled. Don't worry you can follow procedure given below to enable folder options once again.

Method 1 : Using Registry Editor.

Click Start Menu –> Run or else Press Win key+R to open run dialog box.

Now type Regedit to open Registry Editor.

Navigate to the following keys

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Policies\Explorer

Look for the dword value NoFolderOptions either delete it or set its value to 1

Method 2 : Using .reg file

If you are not familiar with registry editing you can try following method

Open Notepad and copy paste following code in it.

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoFolderOptions"=dword:0000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoFolderOptions"=dword:0000000

Now save file as abhishek.reg. NOTE : Dont save file as .txt but as .reg
Now double click the file and when system asks for permission to add information in registry click Yes

Folder Options will be enabled.