gamehead200 Posted October 6, 2002 Posted October 6, 2002 When I opened "My Computer" this afternoon, I saw the everyone's documents folders (i.e: Michael's Documents, George's Documents, etc. and Shared Documents) under the "Files Stored on This Computer". How can I get rid of them from "My Computer"?
Drewdatrip Posted October 7, 2002 Posted October 7, 2002 Not quite sure what your after game head..can u explain the situation in a bit more detail..thankx=Drew
Crispy Posted October 7, 2002 Posted October 7, 2002 How can I get rid of my computer?Well, that's very easy But if want to remove the user folders ... Why don't you just remove the users? ... Hmmm, not really sure of what you mean ....
gamehead200 Posted October 7, 2002 Author Posted October 7, 2002 OK, my user's USER DOCUMENTS all show in "my computer". See attached image...How can I hide those folders?
Reverend Posted October 7, 2002 Posted October 7, 2002 gamehead i've made a small reg file which removes the documents entries from My Computer.Unzip the attachment,and double click the docsremoval.reg file to add it to the registry.You need to reboot for the changes to take effect.When you have rebooted the docs will no longer show in My Computer. UPDATE:there are 2 reg files in that Zip file,i forgot to delete shareddocsremoval.regdocsremoval.zip
Reverend Posted October 7, 2002 Posted October 7, 2002 Here's an updated Zip file,with just one reg file in. docsremoval.regdocsremoval.zip
Reverend Posted October 7, 2002 Posted October 7, 2002 To reverse the procedure and get the document entries back in My Computer again.Open regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\ExplorerRight click the NoSharedDocuments value and select delete. Reboot for the changes to take effect.
gamehead200 Posted October 7, 2002 Author Posted October 7, 2002 One thing Rev, will this get rid of my "Shared Documents" folder? I only want to get rid of the others.
Reverend Posted October 7, 2002 Posted October 7, 2002 Yes it will remove all the document folders including the Shared Documents folder because they are all within the same directory.You can't remove the folders individually.What i would suggest is that you put a shortcut to your "Shared Documents" on the desktop,that way you don't have to keep opening My Computer to access them.Then run the reg file.
Reverend Posted October 7, 2002 Posted October 7, 2002 Here's an alternative method of removal.(Backup registry first)Run regedit and navigate to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ My Computer \ NameSpace \ DelegateFolders\ Look for the key {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee},right click and delete it.This method does not require a reboot.
gamehead200 Posted October 7, 2002 Author Posted October 7, 2002 Holy crap! Why the hell is my registry so big!? !60.6MB! How is this possible? On my Win98 laptop, its only 8MB!
gamehead200 Posted October 7, 2002 Author Posted October 7, 2002 Thanx Rev! But still no luck...How can I just make my Shared Documents folder show up ONLY now?
Reverend Posted October 7, 2002 Posted October 7, 2002 Thanx Rev! But still no luck...How can I just make my Shared Documents folder show up ONLY now?As far as i am aware you can't show the "Shared Documents" folder on it's own.It either has to be listed with the user documents or not at all,because they all belong in the same directory.
gamehead200 Posted October 7, 2002 Author Posted October 7, 2002 Then how come it showed up all alone before yesterday?
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