Re: Hiding SharedDocs from "My Network Place"

From: Kray (kray_at_netcourrier.com)
Date: 03/18/04 

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 17:54:08 +0100

Hello Matthew,
thanks for your help, I forgot to mention that I'm using XP Home Edition
:-( and as far as I know group policy is not supported ? Is there any
equivalent to do this from the registry ?

Thanks again.
Ray

"Matthew Miller" <mattmiller1505@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OYDfPcQDEHA.3796@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> I think what you want to do is open the local group policy of your
computer
> (MMC->Add Snap in -> group Policy)
>
> Find:
> User Configurations\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows
> Explorer
>
> Here there is a setting titled 'Remove Shared Documents from My Computer'
> - Enable this setting
>
> "Kray" <kray@netcourrier.com> wrote in message
> news:uNRcOpPDEHA.3152@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I would like to hide the SharedDocs folder from the network, I have
found
> on
> > the net some information about this but none of them worked as I wanted
> to.
> > For example, i tried those two tips with no success at all (see below).
> >
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> > ------------
> > Method1:
> > Start the Registry Editor
> > Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \
CurrentVersion
> \
> > Policies \ Explorer \
> > Right-click an empty space in the right pane and select New > DWORD
Value
> > Name the new value NoSharedDocuments
> > Double-click this new value, and enter 1 as its Value data
> > Close the registry editor
> > Log off, or restart Windows for the changes to take effect
> > To reverse this process, change the Value data to 0, or delete the
> > NoSharedDocuments Value.
> > Method2:
> > Open Registry Editor and navigate to the following key:
> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \
> > Explorer \ My Computer \ NameSpace \ DelegateFolders
> > Look for a sub-key titled {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}. Delete
> > this one and all of the Shared Documents folders (normally grouped as
> "Other
> > Files Stored on This Computer") will be gone.
> > Reboot after the changes to make them active.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> > ------------
> >
> >
> > They only hide the SharedDocs folder localy which is not what I want to
> do,
> > I would like to disable this feature localy and also on the network.
Does
> > anyone know how to get rid of that ?
> >
> > Many thanks in advance for your precious help.
> >
> > Ray
> > PS. I'm sorry if cross-posting is not tolerated, i just didn't know
where
> to
> > post my message.
> >
> >
>
>

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