These add a menu to Windows Explorer which shows or hides hidden files. It also will add menu items which show and hides protected system files. You can optionally also add menus for showing and hiding files which begin with a dot in the current folder.

Add_hidden_dot_items_to_context_menu.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; Created by: Kevin Rowe
; Created on: December 9, 2021

; Based on work by (you will probably want to install his script to work along with this script):
; Created by: Shawn Brink
; Tutorial: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/75901-hidden-items-add-context-menu-windows-10-a.html

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\HiddenFiles]
"Icon"="imageres.dll,-5314"
"MUIVerb"="Hidden items"
"Position"="Bottom"
"Extended"=-
"SubCommands"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\HiddenFiles\shell\x3menu]
"MUIVerb"="Hide Dot Items"
"Icon"="imageres.dll,-5314"
"CommandFlags"=dword:00000020

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\HiddenFiles\shell\x3menu\command]
@="cmd /c, wscript.exe c:\\sys\\vbs\\hidden_dot_files.vbs hide \"%V\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\HiddenFiles\shell\x4menu]
"MUIVerb"="Show Dot Items"
"Icon"="imageres.dll,-5314"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\HiddenFiles\shell\x4menu\command]
@="cmd /c, wscript.exe c:\\sys\\vbs\\hidden_dot_files.vbs show \"%V\""


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\HiddenFiles]
"Icon"="imageres.dll,-5314"
"MUIVerb"="Hidden items"
"Position"="Bottom"
"Extended"=-
"SubCommands"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\HiddenFiles\shell\x3menu]
"MUIVerb"="Hide Dot Items"
"Icon"="imageres.dll,-5314"
"CommandFlags"=dword:00000020

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\HiddenFiles\shell\x3menu\command]
@="cmd /c, wscript.exe c:\\sys\\vbs\\hidden_dot_files.vbs hide \"%V\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\HiddenFiles\shell\x4menu]
"MUIVerb"="Show Dot Items"
"Icon"="imageres.dll,-5314"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\HiddenFiles\shell\x4menu\command]
@="cmd /c, wscript.exe c:\\sys\\vbs\\hidden_dot_files.vbs show \"%V\""

Add_hidden_items_to_context_menu.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; Created by: Shawn Brink
; Created on: January 27, 2017
; Updated on: March 17, 2020
; Tutorial: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/75901-hidden-items-add-context-menu-windows-10-a.html

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\HiddenFiles]
"Icon"="imageres.dll,-5314"
"MUIVerb"="Hidden items"
"Position"="Bottom"
"Extended"=-
"SubCommands"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\HiddenFiles\shell\Windows.ShowHiddenFiles]
"CommandStateSync"=""
"Description"="@shell32.dll,-37573"
"ExplorerCommandHandler"="{f7300245-1f4b-41ba-8948-6fd392064494}"
"Icon"="imageres.dll,-5314"
"MUIVerb"="Hide/Show Hidden items"


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\HiddenFiles\shell\x1menu]
"MUIVerb"="Hide protected OS files"
"Icon"="imageres.dll,-5314"
"CommandFlags"=dword:00000020

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\HiddenFiles\shell\x1menu\command]
@="cmd /c, REG ADD \"HKCU\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Advanced\" /V ShowSuperHidden /T REG_DWORD /D 0 /F & taskkill /f /im explorer.exe & start explorer.exe"


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\HiddenFiles\shell\x2menu]
"MUIVerb"="Show protected OS files"
"Icon"="imageres.dll,-5314"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\HiddenFiles\shell\x2menu\command]
@="cmd /c, REG ADD \"HKCU\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Advanced\" /V Hidden /T REG_DWORD /D 1 /F & REG ADD \"HKCU\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Advanced\" /V ShowSuperHidden /T REG_DWORD /D 1 /F & taskkill /f /im explorer.exe & start explorer.exe"




[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\HiddenFiles]
"Icon"="imageres.dll,-5314"
"MUIVerb"="Hidden items"
"Position"="Bottom"
"Extended"=-
"SubCommands"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\HiddenFiles\shell\Windows.ShowHiddenFiles]
"CommandStateSync"=""
"Description"="@shell32.dll,-37573"
"ExplorerCommandHandler"="{f7300245-1f4b-41ba-8948-6fd392064494}"
"Icon"="imageres.dll,-5314"
"MUIVerb"="Hide/Show Hidden items"


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\HiddenFiles\shell\x1menu]
"MUIVerb"="Hide protected OS files"
"Icon"="imageres.dll,-5314"
"CommandFlags"=dword:00000020

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\HiddenFiles\shell\x1menu\command]
@="cmd /c, REG ADD \"HKCU\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Advanced\" /V ShowSuperHidden /T REG_DWORD /D 0 /F & taskkill /f /im explorer.exe & start explorer.exe"


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\HiddenFiles\shell\x2menu]
"MUIVerb"="Show protected OS files"
"Icon"="imageres.dll,-5314"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\HiddenFiles\shell\x2menu\command]
@="cmd /c, REG ADD \"HKCU\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Advanced\" /V Hidden /T REG_DWORD /D 1 /F & REG ADD \"HKCU\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Advanced\" /V ShowSuperHidden /T REG_DWORD /D 1 /F & taskkill /f /im explorer.exe & start explorer.exe"

hidden_dot_files.vbs

; Created by: Kevin Rowe
; Created on: December 9, 2021

' This script modifies the attribute of all files in a directory which start with a dot.
' This is useful because Linux filesystems understand this to mean that the file\directory
' should always be hidden and sometime we want to use applications which use this system
' on Windows machines without cluttering up our directories. This script does not recurse
' the directory to find all dot files and it doesn't recursively hide items in dot directories.
' In other words, it only modifies file attributes in the given directory. You may optionally
' provide a boolean value as the first parameter to indicate whether to show or hide the dot
' files. If it isn't given they will be hidden.

' Example useage:
'   wscript.exe .\hidden_dot_files.vbs "c:\\"
'   wscript.exe .\hidden_dot_files.vbs show "c:\\"

If WScript.Arguments.Count > 0 Then
    If WScript.Arguments.Count > 1 Then
        strShow = WScript.Arguments(0)
        strPath = WScript.Arguments(1)
        bShow=( strShow = "0" Or StrComp(strShow, "false", 1) = 0 Or StrComp(strShow, "no", 1) = 0 Or StrComp(strShow, "show", 1) = 0 )
        If bShow = False Then
            bHide=( strShow = "1" Or StrComp(strShow, "true", 1) = 0 Or StrComp(strShow, "yes", 1) = 0 Or StrComp(strShow, "hide", 1) = 0 )
            If bHide = False Then ' We have > 1 argument and the first argument is not a valid boolean value.
                Wscript.Echo "When more than one argument is given the first argument must be a boolean value (0, 1, true, false, yes, no, show, and hide are all accepted) indicating whether the dot files should be hidden."
                wscript.Quit(1)
            End If
        End If
    Else
        strPath = WScript.Arguments(0)
        bShow = False
    End If
	
	strLastChar = Mid(strPath, Len(strPath), 1)
	If strLastChar = "\" Or strLastChar = "/" Then
		strPath = Mid(strPath, 1, Len(strPath)-1)
	End If

    Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
	strPath=objFSO.GetAbsolutePathName(strPath)
    If objFSO.FolderExists(strPath) Then
		Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
		If bShow Then
			objShell.run "cmd.exe /C ATTRIB -H /s /d """ & strPath & "\.*""", 0, False
		Else
			objShell.run "cmd.exe /C ATTRIB +H /s /d """ & strPath & "\.*""", 0, False
		End If

'		sMsg="The folder path,""" & strPath & "\.*"" will "
'		If bShow = False Then sMsg = sMsg & "not "
'		sMsg = sMsg & "be shown."
'        Wscript.Echo sMsg

        wscript.Quit(0)
    Else
        Wscript.Echo "The folder path does not exist. Path given: " & strPath
        wscript.Quit(2)
    End If
Else
    WScript.Echo "You must supply the folder path to be modified."
	wscript.Quit(3)
End If