How to access appdata in Windows 7 (unhide individual folder)
Follow this tutorial to unhide or access the appdata folder in Windows 7. You do not have to unhide all system files.
Tip: Before you follow this tutorial, you might want to read this simple guide: How to show hidden files and folders in Windows 7
However, if you do not want to unhide all other system files, you can simply enter the actual path (as described below) and then unhide only this folder.
Steps to access appdata
1. Click Start >> Computer or alternatively, you can just double click Computer in your desktop.
2. Double click on Local Disk (C:) to open C: drive.
3. Double click on the folder / directory name as ‘Users’.
4. Now open the folder that has your name by double clicking on it. In my case, it is administrator. You might have folder named administrator or just your name like Harry, Coolboy etc. The name you gave while installing windows 7 is usually shown over here.
5. You might have noticed that Appdata folder is hidden. In the address bar above, click on it and type ‘\appdata’ just after the text shown over there and press Enter.
6. Then you will see the folder ‘AppData’ with its content.
7. Now, right click on the blank space in the folder and select ‘Properties’.
8. In the opened AppData Properties window, uncheck / untick Hidden by clicking on it and click Apply.
9. Again in the ‘Confirm Attribute Changes’ window, check / tick ‘Apply changes to this folder only’ radio button by clicking on it and click OK.
10. Lastly click OK.
11. Now if you go back to the ‘Administrator’ folder in our case. In your case, it might be ‘your name’ folder. There you will see ‘AppData’ shown up. Last time it was hidden so we had to search it from addressbar. That’s all.
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That are the complete steps you need to access appdata in windows 7 or to unhide it.
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Written by oliversk Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
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