How to Hide Your Hard Drives ( C, D, E, A etc )

By jaindinu

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This article will help those who doesnt want to show the hard drives in my computer options for any private reasons. Some people also play pranks with thier friends computer by doing this but still its not recommended. I am posting this article only to help those who needs any kind of privacy may be some parents want to hide any kind of stuffs (porn, adult pics, adult videos) from thier children or may be any boss want to hide out his private files or documents from his employees. Well, i can just say that please use this only if you need it genuinely.

Instructions

Difficulty: Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

  • Some knowledge of opening the Registry.
Step1
This is a great trick, use it very carefully.

Go to Start ----> Run ----> type "regedit" without quotes.

This will open the computer Registry.
Step2
Now 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 (it is case sensitive). Now modify it's value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal).
Step3
Now restart your computer. So, now when you click on My Computer, no drives will be shown(all gone...).

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.

Tips & Warnings

  • This is a great trick but just do it very carefully.........

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kejdi

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on 6/25/2008 HOW TO SHOW C: HARD DRIVE IN MY COMPUTER? I HAVE CONFIRMED ALL THE WAY BUT NO RESULT. PLEASE HALP ME.

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