Public Folder in Vista

[ghostmk]

Is there a way to delete the Public folder in Vista ???? or at least hide it , and , can i fully delete the contacts , documents ... from my user folder ??? coz after i delete them they show up again??

[TheTOM_SK]

I do not recommend to remove Public folder. I have just spent a few houres going through my settings, trying to find out, why I can not instal games like FEAR, NFS Carbon and etc, which reports, that there is not enough space on the HDD. It was due to removed Public folder. Whatever is there, it is important to keep it.

[ghostmk]

Can you could tell me how you did it ? (remove the public folder )

[Jeronimo]

I would indeed not recommend to remove it, but hiding from excplorer I did with the following Registry tweak:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 

; Remove Public folder from Explorer
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{4336a54d-038b-4685-ab02-99bb52d3fb8b}]

Edited February 10, 2007 by Jeronimo