Well, what it did effectively is un-share it using the Basic Sharing option. Can you check under Properties > Sharing tab and see if it's a shared folder? Try to un-share it. That should do the trick.
It appears that it doesn't hide them the user folder location when you click open the "Personal folder" button in the Start Menu when you hide a user folder at the C:\Users\(user-name) folder for some reason.
It looks like you may need to use the Customize Start Menu settings to remove the whole "personal folder", and just add the individual user folders you still want displayed instead for now.
Nope, not a shared folder. Just to be clear, you're able to hide folders like Contacts, My Pictures, My Videos, etc. from your user directory even when accessed from the start menu/desktop?
I don't understand, why would I want to remove the personal folder?It appears that it doesn't hide them the user folder location when you click open the "Personal folder" button in the Start Menu when you hide a user folder at the C:\Users\(user-name) folder for some reason.
It looks like you may need to use the Customize Start Menu settings to remove the whole "personal folder", and just add the individual user folders you still want displayed instead for now.
Oh, I see. I mainly use the start menu anyway to get to most of my folders, so it's not that annoying, I'm just really curious as to why they can't be hidden.
I'm not certain why either, but it may have something to do with it being a symbolic link. Just a guess though.
Nvm, all I had to do was reload explorer (or log in and out) after setting the attributes.
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