Well, I went into tools and then internet options and successfully clicked on
the 'show hidden files' option; only problem is when I try to right click
the links folder so that I could change the properties to 'read only' from
'hide', the links button doesn't work and in fact disappears so that i have
to bring it up again; each time i try to right click on the links bar, it
disappears. I have looked under favorites to see if the links folder is
there, but it is still hidden.