Folder options disabled by Virus / Trojan

Are you not able to access or see your folder options under File Menu>>Tools in Windows Explorer on your Windows XP ? This problem of hidden or disabled folder options occur normally due to malicious virus(w32.rontokbro@mm) activity.

The virus creates an entry in registry to disable “Folder Options” in Windows explorer.

Solution to recover Disabled Folder Option:

In most of the cases, even if the virus is been already removed by your anti-virus program, it doesn’t restore the registry back to the original state. Also anti-virus usually does not delete the registry entry created by the virus.

For restoring the registry settings,follow the steps given below

*Enable your folder options in explorer.

1. Go to Start --> RUN
2. Type regedit and press enter.
3. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER --> Software --> Microsoft --> Windows --> CurrentVersion --> Policies-- > Explorer
4. On the right side of the screen, you can see some registry entry names, out of them, right-click on NoFolderOptions and click Modify option.

.A new small screen pops up, on this screen, sen the value data field as 0 (zero).PressOK.

That’s it but it requires reboot. Trouble Fixed.