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System files now visible, how do I hide them?

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Ultrageek   03-20-2005 at 03:05:57 PM

Ok I´m not an expert so I´m going to try and explain this as best as I can. I don´t know how it happened but one day turning on the computer I realised that now I can view icons of system files. They are slightly transparent. For example in my music folder I now have loads of 'AlbumArt' files which media I guess explorer uses when openning a song. When I delete these I get a warning message ex. "The file "AlbumArt_{FF60ABEC9-4EDS-ASDS-4SDD54455SF}_Small" is a file from your system. If you remove this file, you could cause errors etc etc"
There has got to be an option to hide all these system files which have now become visible.
Thanx...

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_WW_   03-20-2005 at 04:43:38 PM
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Open up Windows explorer, at the top select; tools/folder options/select the view tab/under 'Hidden Files and Folders' select "Do not show hidden files and folders"

....WW (5.0)

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khha4113   03-20-2005 at 05:07:24 PM
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By default, Windows hides all system files unless you already changed this option.

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Ultrageek   03-20-2005 at 06:09:48 PM
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lol that was simple, I feel stupid. Thanx

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