Windows – Enable/disable the “Show hidden files” setting from the command line

I believe the command you are looking for is:

sc config servicenamehere start= auto

You'll need to know the name of the service though - to view this from the command line, try this command - this will show all services:

sc query type= service state= all

If you want to see only stopped services, run this command:

sc query type= service state= inactive

The list of services output by the query can be quite long. You may filter it by using findstr (see post here) . For example

sc query type= service state= all | findstr "ssh"

Will select the output lines of the services list that contain the string "ssh"

Note: For some services you may need also administrator privileges, you will notice it on getting the message Access is denied after executing the sc command. In that case open the Command Prompt (Admin) by pressing 'Windows + X' keys.

See this writeup on File System Redirector.

If a 32 bit program attempts to access the System32 folder it will be invisibly redirected to the %windir%\SysWOW64 directory, to maintain compatibility between 32/64 bit applications.

The %windir%\System32 directory is reserved for 64-bit applications. Most DLL file names were not changed when 64-bit versions of the DLLs were created, so 32-bit versions of the DLLs are stored in a different directory. WOW64 hides this difference by using a file system redirector.

In most cases, whenever a 32-bit application attempts to access %windir%\System32, the access is redirected to %windir%\SysWOW64. Access to %windir%\lastgood\system32 is redirected to %windir%\lastgood\SysWOW64. Access to %windir%\regedit.exe is redirected to %windir%\SysWOW64\regedit.exe. If the access causes the system to display the UAC prompt, redirection does not occur. Instead, the 64-bit version of the requested file is launched.

To prevent this problem, either specify the SysWOW64 directory to avoid >redirection and ensure access to the 32-bit version of the file, or run the 32- > bit application with administrator privileges so the UAC prompt is not displayed. Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP: UAC is not supported. Certain subdirectories are exempt from redirection.

Access to these subdirectories is not redirected to %windir%\SysWOW64:

%windir%\system32\catroot

%windir%\system32\catroot2

%windir%\system32\driverstore

%windir%\system32\drivers\etc

%windir%\system32\logfiles

%windir%\system32\spool