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Hai,
You can change the registry to hide the drives.
This setting allows you to control which drives are visible in My Computer and Explorer. It is possible to hide all drives or just selected ones.
The "NoDrives" value uses a 32-bit word to define local and network drive visibility for each logical drive in the computer. The lower 26 bits of the 32-bit word correspond to drive letters A through Z. Drives are visible when set to 0 and hidden when set to 1.
If your not happy working in Hex, add these decimal numbers to hide the drive(s):
A: 1, B: 2, C: 4, D: 8, E: 16, F: 32, G: 64, H: 128, I: 256, J: 512, K: 1024, L: 2048, M: 4096, N: 8192, O: 16384, P: 32768, Q: 65536, R: 131072, S: 262144, T: 524288, U: 1048576, V: 2097152, W: 4194304, X: 8388608, Y: 16777216, Z: 33554432, ALL: 67108863
For example to hide drive A and drive D, you would add 1 (A) + 8 (D) which means the value should be set to "9".
To disable all the drives set the value to "67108863".
Restart Windows for the change to take effect.
Note: These drives will still appear in File Manager, to remove File Manager, delete or rename winfile.exe.
Registry Settings
User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Softwar e\Microsof t\Windows\ CurrentVer sion\Polic ies\
Explorer]
System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Softwa re\Microso ft\Windows \CurrentVe rsion\Poli cies\
Explorer]
Value Name: NoDrives
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
This restriction prevents users from using My Computer or Explorer to access the content of selected drives. Also, they cannot use Run, Map Network Drive, or the Dir command to view the directories on these drives
Open your registry and find or create the key below.
The "NoViewOnDrive" value uses a 32-bit bitmask to define local and network drive access for each logical drive in the computer. The lower 26 bits of the 32-bit word correspond to drive letters A through Z. Drives are visible when set to 0 and hidden when set to 1.
If your not happy working in Hex, add these decimal numbers to hide the drive(s):
A: 1, B: 2, C: 4, D: 8, E: 16, F: 32, G: 64, H: 128, I: 256, J: 512, K: 1024, L: 2048, M: 4096, N: 8192, O: 16384, P: 32768, Q: 65536, R: 131072, S: 262144, T: 524288, U: 1048576, V: 2097152, W: 4194304, X: 8388608, Y: 16777216, Z: 33554432, ALL: 67108863
For example to hide drive A and drive D, you would add 1 (A) + 8 (D) which means the value should be set to "9".
To disable all the drives set the value to "67108863".
Restart Windows for the change to take effect.
Registry Settings
User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Softwar e\Microsof t\Windows\ CurrentVer sion\Polic ies\
Explorer]
System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Softwa re\Microso ft\Windows \CurrentVe rsion\Poli cies\
Explorer]
Value Name: NoViewOnDrive
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value Data: 32-bit bitmask
You can put it in a .reg file so that in can be executed by clicking it (ie.,you can hinde/unhide by a single click)
Also I added the restrictions for the drive in the secong tweak
The method to create .reg file is given here
http://is-it-true.org/nt/registry/regfiles.shtml
Hope this helps
Regards
Venish
You can change the registry to hide the drives.
This setting allows you to control which drives are visible in My Computer and Explorer. It is possible to hide all drives or just selected ones.
The "NoDrives" value uses a 32-bit word to define local and network drive visibility for each logical drive in the computer. The lower 26 bits of the 32-bit word correspond to drive letters A through Z. Drives are visible when set to 0 and hidden when set to 1.
If your not happy working in Hex, add these decimal numbers to hide the drive(s):
A: 1, B: 2, C: 4, D: 8, E: 16, F: 32, G: 64, H: 128, I: 256, J: 512, K: 1024, L: 2048, M: 4096, N: 8192, O: 16384, P: 32768, Q: 65536, R: 131072, S: 262144, T: 524288, U: 1048576, V: 2097152, W: 4194304, X: 8388608, Y: 16777216, Z: 33554432, ALL: 67108863
For example to hide drive A and drive D, you would add 1 (A) + 8 (D) which means the value should be set to "9".
To disable all the drives set the value to "67108863".
Restart Windows for the change to take effect.
Note: These drives will still appear in File Manager, to remove File Manager, delete or rename winfile.exe.
Registry Settings
User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Softwar
Explorer]
System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Softwa
Explorer]
Value Name: NoDrives
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
This restriction prevents users from using My Computer or Explorer to access the content of selected drives. Also, they cannot use Run, Map Network Drive, or the Dir command to view the directories on these drives
Open your registry and find or create the key below.
The "NoViewOnDrive" value uses a 32-bit bitmask to define local and network drive access for each logical drive in the computer. The lower 26 bits of the 32-bit word correspond to drive letters A through Z. Drives are visible when set to 0 and hidden when set to 1.
If your not happy working in Hex, add these decimal numbers to hide the drive(s):
A: 1, B: 2, C: 4, D: 8, E: 16, F: 32, G: 64, H: 128, I: 256, J: 512, K: 1024, L: 2048, M: 4096, N: 8192, O: 16384, P: 32768, Q: 65536, R: 131072, S: 262144, T: 524288, U: 1048576, V: 2097152, W: 4194304, X: 8388608, Y: 16777216, Z: 33554432, ALL: 67108863
For example to hide drive A and drive D, you would add 1 (A) + 8 (D) which means the value should be set to "9".
To disable all the drives set the value to "67108863".
Restart Windows for the change to take effect.
Registry Settings
User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Softwar
Explorer]
System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Softwa
Explorer]
Value Name: NoViewOnDrive
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value Data: 32-bit bitmask
You can put it in a .reg file so that in can be executed by clicking it (ie.,you can hinde/unhide by a single click)
Also I added the restrictions for the drive in the secong tweak
The method to create .reg file is given here
http://is-it-true.org/nt/registry/regfiles.shtml
Hope this helps
Regards
Venish
Hai,
Also for creating .reg files refer
http://www.geekgirls.com/windows_registry03.htm
For creating batch files from .reg files then refer
www.robvanderwoude.com/regedit.html
Regards
Venish
Also for creating .reg files refer
http://www.geekgirls.com/windows_registry03.htm
For creating batch files from .reg files then refer
www.robvanderwoude.com/regedit.html
Regards
Venish
This is exactlly what I was looking for, thank you so much for your help.
Jungliss
Hai,
Glad to help "U" and happy to know that "U" got the solution.
:)
Regards
Venish
Glad to help "U" and happy to know that "U" got the solution.
:)
Regards
Venish
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Venishjoe,
I created this question only because I thought is was misplaced. Post a comment to to the original 500 point question so jungliss23 can accept your answer. When jungliss23 does, I will be able to accept yours here.
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mrdtn
I created this question only because I thought is was misplaced. Post a comment to to the original 500 point question so jungliss23 can accept your answer. When jungliss23 does, I will be able to accept yours here.
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mrdtn
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