How to reset the C:\Program Files & and/or C:\Windows folders to preset (? _)

While working on the resolution of a virus problem for a friend on a Win XPSP2 system, I clicked on the link "view files...". "in one of these"protected"files and now the files are always visible.

I want to give them to their protection status to avoid any pilot error by the users.

At one point, there was an option to restore the default behavior, but I can't, for the life of me, find the option now that the problem is resolved and that the machine is updated for XP3 with all patches of security over the past two years.

So... does anyone know how to restore these files 'special' to their original default behavior?

OK... Nevermind; I figured out what to do.  If anyone has the same problem (ok, probably not), it's kind of simple.

In the file (a/k/a Windows Explorer) Manager, I clicked on the (X) in the left pane (to close the folder list and implement

a new series of options here).  This is!  the option "Hide the contents of this drive" appeared as if by magic.

You know how it is when you try to clean one of these fake Trojan alerts... you tend to panic!  :)

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