Is it possible to have the same file search feature as it was in XP?

Now in order to sort by folder you need to make the column Path
visible every time (the column Folder is useless because puts the last
part of the path at the beginning), and I wasn't able to remove the
column Folder and make the column Path by default.

In XP was possible to search for a file in the hidden and/or system
file, in Vista you can only turn both on or off.