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Friday 25 May 2012

Disabling Drives in My Computer


To turn off the display of local or networked drives  on My Computer

FOLLOW THESE STEPS

1.
 
Open Registry editor (start > Run> then type "regedit" (without quotes) and press enter button
this will open registry editor
 2.Go to path

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

3.Add a New DWORD item and name it NoDrives 

4.Double click on it and give it the value 3FFFFFF and select hexadecimal
5. Restart or Logoff the computer to save the changes
5.Now when open My Computer, none of your drives will show.

Wrong settings in the registry may cause unpredictable problems to your Windows. So carefully change the appropriate values.