Hidden File Scanner is a free tool that scans drives for hidden files that scattered across many directories on your Windows.
Hidden File Scanner is portable so no installation is required. You can straight away run the executable file. On the main window, select the drives that you want scan for hidden files. You can choose to scan all drives if you want to, just click the All Drives link.
Before you hit the Scan button, you can specify whether to exclude system files, exclude directories from the search. This way, the search results are more logical to view. After complete scan, a list of hidden files will be displayed in the main window. From there, you are allow to unhide or delete them.
In addition, Hidden File Scanner also does a quick scan at start up to detect the appearance of autorun.inf files on all devices including removable medias. If such an autorun.inf file is found, a dialog box will pop up where you can either delete, unhide or inspect the content of the autorun.inf. This tool will automatically rate the autorun.inf files as normal, hidden, suspicious or dangerous file.
Note that you must not simply delete any hidden files found, you might screw up your system. If you have such files, and their file name does not help you to identify the file, right click it and open the file information dialog. You will see for most executable files the copyright of the executable file, which might help you identifying it. Thanks, Technix Update!
