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How To Hide My Documents , Properties Menu And Drives In Windows Xp

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Post #1 post Jul 10 2007, 09:43 PM
How to hide My Documents icon from your Desktop

1- Click start menu > click Run to open Run dialog box. Type regedit to run Windows Registry Editor.
2- Find following address:
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID
3- Open
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{450D8-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}
tree. And then click on (ShellFolder).
4- In the right panel create a new DWORD Value and then name it "Attributes".
5- To hide My Documents Icon, give it value of : f0500174
6- To show My Documents Icon, give it value of : f0400174
7- Close Windows Registry Editor and restart your computer.

How to hide Properties from My Computer context menu
1- Click start menu > click Run to open Run dialog box. Type regedit to run Windows Registry Editor.
2- Go to following address :
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explore
3- In the right panel create a new REG_DWORD Value and then name it NoPropertiesMyComputer.
4- To hide Properties, give it value of 1
5- To show Properties, give it value of 0
6- Close Windows Registry Editor and restart your computer.

How to hide Drives
1- Click start menu > click Run to open Run dialog box. Type regedit to run Windows Registry Editor.
2- Go to following address:
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

3- In the right panel create a new DWORD Value and name it NoDrives. Then open new DWORD key and then select "Decimal".
4- To hide drives type below Decimal entries :
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A: 1
B: 2
C: 4
D: 8
E: 16
F: 32
G: 64
H: 128

AND ...
TO HIDE ALL DRIVES TYPE 67108863. TO HIDE TWO OR MORE DRIVES; ENTER SUM OF THEM. FOR EXAMPLE TO HIDE : DRIVE D,E,F TYPE 56
7- Close Windows Registry Editor and restart your computer.


Note: incorrectly editing windows registry may damages your computer; please create a backup from your registry.
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