Ever wish you could make one of your computer's drives invisible to anyone snooping around on your system? Well, happy days are here my friend! Whether you have sensitive docs, pictures, or any other private data, this is one of the easiest ways to keep them safe. Keep in mind that you'll still be able to access your hidden drives; you just won't see that they exist in Windows Explorer or the My Computer folder. Back up your registry before you start! 1. Open Regedit. 2. Navigate to one of these strings: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer - this only changes the settings for the current logged in user HKEY_LOCALMACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer - this changes the settings for all users on the machine. You may have to create the key folder "Explorer" manually. 3. In the Explorer key folder, create a new DWORD value by right-clicking Explorer, then choosing New DWORD value. Name the value "NoDrives" (without the quotes). This value defines local and network drive visibility for each logical drive on the computer. All drives will be visible as long as this value's data is set to 0. 4. Following the table below, enter the decimal number corresponding to the drive(s) you want to hide as NoDrives value data. When you right-click on NoDrives and choose Modify, make sure you select Decimal base, not Hexadecimal. Drive Number to hide 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 drives 67108863 If you want to hide more than one drive, you simply add the drive amounts together for a combined total. For example, to hide the D:/ and T:/ drives, add the decimal value for the D:/ drive to the decimal value to the T:/ drive. 8 (D) + 524288 (T) = 524296 To disable all of your visible drives, set the value to 67108863. You must reboot your PC to see your changes.
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just wanna ask how to bskup the registry, is it really possible? i was really amazed with this article, it gives me idea on securing my file from those end users which might damage my file specially those who belong to my network
yes, This can be the case if you want to secure a complete drive. But tweaking the registry for a beginner or novice user, is always risky. If you have any folder / file to secure, you can use DOS command "attrib". Command would be like to hide a folder in explorer Code: attrib +h +s folder_name Folder name can be replaced with any file name. This hidden file/folder will not be visible whether you have selected to view hidden files. You can access these files from address bar of explorer. Actually windows does not show contents of system folders by default. I am just using this behavior and turning on the system attribute of files/folders.
it really works great, it really hides my file but what shall i do to renew the settings of my folder just like before? tnx a lot
To bring back the folder previous setting, you can use the following code: Code: attrib -h -s folder_name
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