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Disabling Display of Drives in My Computer

This is yet another trick you can play on your geek friend. To disable the display of local or networked drives when you click My Computer go to : 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

NOTE : to open HKEY_CURRENT_USER

Go to run and type regedit



To hide drive or prevent access to specific drive:

This method can be used only on Windows XP Professional Edition.

1.Open the Group Policy Editor (Start > Run, type in “gpedit.msc” and press [Enter]).

2.Go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates> Windows Components > WindowsExplorer.

3.Here, you’ll find “Hide these specified drives in My Computer” and “Prevent access to drives from My Computer”.

4.The difference between the two settings is that “Prevent access” will allow the user to see the drive icon, but will give an error message when he tries to access it.

5.“Hide” will remove the icon so the user won’t see it, but the drive can still be accessed by using Start > Run and keying in the drive letter.

6.Under this setting, after you click the radio button next to “Enable”, you’ll see several options. Choose the one you want to

apply, for example, “Restrict A and B drives only”. You’ll notice that the options here are restricted; you cannot, for example,

choose to restrict drives A, B and D.

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