Articles Archive for February 2008
This tweak will hide a drive letter from showing up in My Computer, however the drive will still be able to be accessed manually by typing in the drive letter in explorer.
—-Tweak Steps—-
1) Start > Run > regedit
2) Goto HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Explorer
3) Right click in the blank space and choose New > “REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)”
4) Name is “NoDrives”
5) Right click on “NoDrives” and select Modify
5) Following the table below, enter in a DECIMAL value!!
Drive Letter
DECIMAL Value
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
To Hide Multiple Drives, Add their values together.
Example: A+D = 9 Decimal Value
A+C+D = 13 Decimal …
Note: This is not the fix for drag-drop of networked files….
Windows XP Fix For Networked Files
This should also work for any other type of file.
This is a page to fix the problem where you get a dialog “Your current security settings do not allow this action” when drag-dropping a folder/file from a .zip (ZIP Archive) to another open folder/window.
This is caused by how Windows XP SP3 (Only pre-RC2) treats downloaded files and their restrictions….
—-Fix For This Problem!—-
1) Right-click on the offending .zip file
2) Choose Properties
3) Click Unblock
5) Then Click Apply
6) …