Toggle Hidden Files with a shortcut key in Windows 7

What I’ve done is throw together a very simple application that runs in the background and assigns the hotkey Win+H to toggle hidden files. There’s no user interface to keep it from wasting memory, but you can always customize it using the AutoHotkey script provided below instead.


Toggle Hidden Files

Once you’ve downloaded and run the application, all you have to do is hit
the Win+H shortcut key while you have any folder open:

And presto! You’ll immediately see any hidden files in that folder, or any
folders that are open.

Hit the same hotkey sequence again, and the hidden folders will disappear again. Very useful!

Installing the Hotkey

In order to install this and set it up to run at startup, you’ll need to save
and extract the downloadable file, and then create a shortcut in your
startup group, which you can easily access by typing the following
into the location bar in start menu:

shell:startup

You could even just copy the executable in… but either way, once you’ve
 done that, you can double-click on it to start it.

Note that there’s no UI for this application, it runs completely in the
background to limit memory usage as much as possible.

Killing the Process

Because there’s no UI, if you want to stop the application from running,
you’ll need to either reboot… or use the much simpler method of opening
Task Manager, finding the ToggleHiddenFiles.exe process and killing it.

Downloadable Application

Just remember to extract this file and save it somewhere where it won’t be
deleted later. I created a folder under my C:drive program files folder with
name 'poweroff' and saved them there.Then execute it and place a
shortcut of "ToggleHiddenFiles" in "shell:startup" by typing
"shell:starup" in start menu.

Download ToggleHiddenFiles Hotkey Application