If you look at the following screenshot:
Notice how there are C drive contents like the WINDOWS dir, Prog. Files dir. etc.
Same goes here in the Docs dir. (C Drive appears identical to the following image):
Please excuse for the incorrect labeling I did in MSPaint ("Desktop" was supposed to read "C Drive" instead).
Can there be a way I can hide them completely like it was back in the stock XP install? (I tried the trick that hid the XP Sidebar on the Desktop but did nothing)?