>Dear Experts
>
>There is a file in following location
>
>C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\UTILITY.DLL
>
>The property of this file is HIDDEN
>
>I want to change this property to un hidden
>
>How is it possible programatically?
>
>Please help

* Sample usage. Omitting RO,Hidden,System parameters - all would be .F.
ChangeFileAttrib("C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\UTILITY.DLL") 


Funtion ChangeFileAttrib
lparameters tcFileName, tlReadOnly, tlHidden, tlSystem

#define FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY    0x00000001  
#define FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN      0x00000002  
#define FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SYSTEM      0x00000004  

local lnNewAttr
lnNewAttr = iif(m.tlReadonly,FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY,0)+;
	  iif(m.tlHidden,FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN,0)+;
	  iif(m.tlSystem,FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SYSTEM,0)
declare integer SetFileAttributes in Win32API ;
	string @ lpFileName,  integer dwFileAttributes
declare integer GetFileAttributes in Win32API ;
  string @ lpFileName
  
SetFileAttributes(@tcFilename, ;
     bitor(bitand(GetFileAttributes(@tcFilename),0xFFFFFFF8),m.lnNewAttr))
endfunc

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