IMPORTANT: These instructions directly affect your access to the registry. This can be circumvented by (temporarily) disabling Access Protection.
To prevent modification of folder options:
- Click Start, Programs, McAfee, VirusScan Console.
- Double-click Access Protection.
- Under Categories, select User-Defined Rules, New.
- Select Registry Blocking Rule and click OK.
- For the Rule name type Prevent modification of hidden folders rule - 1.
- For Processes to include, type asterisk (*).
This ensures that all processes are included.
- For Processes to exclude, type gpupdate.exe and any other process to be excluded, separating processes by a comma and a space.
The gpupdate.exe process is the Microsoft Group Policy Refresh Utility. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490983.aspx
- Under Registry Key or value to protect use the drop down to select HKLM.
- In the adjacent field, type /Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/explorer/advanced/folder/hidden/SHOWALL
- Under Rule Type, select Key.
- For Registry actions to block select Write to key or value and Create Key or value., then click OK to save changes.
- Repeat the steps above, naming the rule Prevent modification of hidden folders rule - 2 and using the path /Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/explorer/advanced/folder/hidden/NOHIDDEN instead of /Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/explorer/advanced/folder/hidden/SHOWALL
- Repeat the initial steps above, naming the rule Prevent modification of hidden folders rule - 3, using HKCU instead of HKLM and using /Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/explorer/advanced instead of /Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/explorer/advanced/folder/hidden/SHOWALL
