cuddlez Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 I am trying to remove the shared folder "Printers and Faxes", does anyone know how, even with the printers not shared, it still displayes add printer.Title edited -- Please, use [TAGS] in your topic's title.--Sonic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 Try these reg tweaks and reboot ...REGEDIT4;Disable printers[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace\{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}];Disable scheduled tasks[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace\{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}];Don't search shared printers[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]"NoNetCrawling"=dword:00000001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuddlez Posted May 9, 2006 Author Share Posted May 9, 2006 BRILLIANT....Thanks Sonic, works a treat!!Thanks Again....Yipee no more Printers and Faxes folder listed on my network anymore... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuddlez Posted May 10, 2006 Author Share Posted May 10, 2006 The following registry entry screws up the networking though. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]"NoNetCrawling"=dword:00000001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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