How to Hide Drives on Windows
This is a great trick you can play on your friends. To disable the display of local or networked drives when you click My Computer.
1. Go to start - run and type regedit.
2. Now go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
3. Now in the right pane create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives (it is case sensitive).
4. Modify it's value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) .
5. Restart your computer.
So, now when you click on My Computer, no drives will be shown.
To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete this DWORD item that you created. Again restart your computer.You can now see all the drives again. Viola!
1. Go to start - run and type regedit.
2. Now go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
3. Now in the right pane create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives (it is case sensitive).
4. Modify it's value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) .
5. Restart your computer.
So, now when you click on My Computer, no drives will be shown.
To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete this DWORD item that you created. Again restart your computer.You can now see all the drives again. Viola!
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