Some of my mp3s have been turned into system files, this was nto my own doing but nevertheless it has happened and i don't know how to change them back to just normal mp3s, to get them to show up in the folder i needed to enable the folder to show hidden files and folders and also make it show system files. Now this allowed me to see the files, and to play them in winamp and other programs but the actual files still appear faded like they are hidden, when right clicking and going into the properties of one of them the hidden box is checked but it does not allow me to unclick it, the hidden option is faded out. Any help on changing them back would be greatly appreciated. Thanx.
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More than likely the files also have the SYSTEM attribute set too. Open a command prompt, navigate to the folder containing the affected file(s) and use the ATTRIB command, e.g. attrib -s zzzz.sys. You could also reset the hidden and/or read-only attribute at the same time:
attrib -s -h -r zzzz.sys
attrib -s -h -r zzzz.sys
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