Hide notes\data in Win2000?

Hi,

will I run into problems, if I change the attribute for the notes\data-directory to hidden (using file-properties)? Will Notes work as normal? What might be a problem?

The reason for this “idea”:

One will prevent users from saving Word-Documents to their notes\data-directory. All other directories in the users homedir will be encrypted. Users have no right to view hidden files and directories.

Thank you for every hint