Tips and tricks on computer and internet - Make your drives invisible
   
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With this trick you will be able to disable the display of drives when you click on my computer.

 

a). Go to start and open run, type regedit and enter  to open registry settings.

 

b). When regedit is opened browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer select explorer.

 

c).Now click Edit->New->DWORD value and name it as NoDrives and press enter.

 

d).Now double click it and enter the decimal number corresponding to the drive(s) you want to hide as listed in the table below, but don’t forget to choose decimal value after double clicking NoDrives.

 

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 than simply add the decimal values of both. For example if you want to hide c drive and drive then add 4 and 8 i.e. you will have to  enter 12. You will have to reboot your pc to see the changes. To show the drive again simply delete NoDrives.

 

   
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