How to hide folders in Windows Explorer?

I want to hide the folders from showing on my computer only, not actually hiding the folder. There are many subfolders on a network that I do not want to show on my computer. Is there a way to do this so that it doesn't affect anyone else trying to view those folders? TIA

If I understand your question correctly...In each profile, modify/add the NoViewOnDrive DWORD value under the following Registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Policies | Explorer

NoViewOnDrive - The DWORD Value is derived from the following...

The "NoViewOnDrive" value uses a 32-bit bitmask to define local and network drive access for each logical drive in the computer. The lower 26 bits of the 32-bit word correspond to drive letters A through Z. Drives are visible when set to 0 and hidden when set to 1. If you're not comfortable working in Hex, add these decimal numbers to hide the drive(s):

A: 1, B: 2, C: 4, D: 8, E: 16, F: 32, G: 64, H: 128, I: 256, J: 512, K: 1024, L: 2048, M: 4096, N: 8192, O: 16384, P: 32768, Q: 65536, R: 131072, S: 262144, T: 524288, U: 1048576, V: 2097152, W: 4194304, X: 8388608, Y: 16777216, Z: 33554432, ALL: 67108863

For example to hide drive A and drive D, you would add 1 (A) + 8 (D) which means the value should be set to "9". To disable all the drives set the value to "67108863".

Sort of. For example:

There are 661 Folders in the V:\Shared\ directory. I never go in about 655 of them. Is there a way to not show those 655 on my system?

No one knows or I wasn't clear on the question? Would anyone know another forum that might have a little more info on this sort of thing or maybe a website I could search through? TIA.

Set up a folder on your machine with shortcuts to the folders you use often if all you want to do is bypass the folders you don't use.