Monday, August 18, 2014

Show And Hide Drives Using Registry

1. Go to Windows registry Editor.Navigate to the following path:
        HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
2. In the right-pane, create a new Binary entry "NoDrives"
3. Enter the corresponding binary value - 03ffffff
4. Save and restart Windows.
                                   OR
1. Create two test files and rename it into .reg extension.Like show.reg and hide.reg
2. For Hiding Edit the hide.reg file and paste the below mentioned code in to it
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoDrives"=dword:03ffffff

3. Save and Restart/Logoff Machine.
4. For Showing the hidden drives, edit the show.reg file and paste the below mentioned code in to it
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoDrives"=dword:00000000

5. Save and Restart/Logoff Machine

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