Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Disabling Display of Drives in My Computer :

To disable the display of local or networked drives when you click My Computer
step 1: go to start

step2: click on run

step 3: write hear "regedit" { when your computer is in admin pannel}

step 4: go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER

step 5: then Software

step 6: then Microsoft

step 7: then Windows

step 8: CurrentVersion

step 9: Policies

step 10: Explorer


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Now in the right pane create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives.
Now modify it's value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal)

Now press F5 to refresh. When you click on My Computer, no drives will be shown.
To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete this DWORD item.
It's .reg file is as follows: REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explore r] "NoDrives"=dword:03ffffff

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