Click: Control Panel - Appearance and Personalization - Folder Options - Show hidden files and folders
Under: Hidden files and folders - select: Show hidden files, folders or drives
Uncheck - Hide protected operating system files.
I hope you don't do anything you regret in there. There are reasons why they recommend these files stay hidden. Also it will put 2 grayed out icons called desktop.ini on your desktop. I always leave them hidden in my computer