Ever wish you could make one of your computer’s drives invisible to anyone snooping around on your system? Well, happy days are here my friend! Whether you have sensitive docs, pictures, or any other private data, this is one of the easiest ways to keep them safe. Keep in mind that you’ll still be healthy to access your hidden drives; you just won’t see that they exist in Windows Explorer or the My Personal folder. Back up your registry before you start!,Ever wish you could make one of your computer’s drives invisible to anyone snooping around on your system? Well, happy days are here my friend! Whether you have sensitive docs, pictures, or any other private data, this is one of the easiest ways to keep them safe. Keep in mind that you’ll still be healthy to access your hidden drives; you just won’t see that they exist in Windows Explorer or the My Personal folder. Back up your registry before you start!

Vista Hard drive Tweaks

1. Open Regedit.

2. Navigate to one of these strings:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindows
CurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer – this only changes the settings for the current logged in user

Vista Hard drive Tweaks

HKEY_LOCALMACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindows
CurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer – this changes the settings for all users on the machine. You might have to create the key folder “Explorer” manually.

3. In the Explorer key folder, create a new DWORD value by right-clicking Explorer, then choosing New DWORD value. Name the value “NoDrives” (without the quotes). This value defines local and network drive visibility for apiece logical drive on the computer. All drives will be visible as long as this value’s data is set to 0.

4. Following the plateau below, enter the decimal number corresponding to the drive(s) you want to hide as NoDrives value data. When you right-click on NoDrives and choose Modify, make sure you choose Decimal base, not Hexadecimal.

1. Open Regedit.

2. Navigate to one of these strings:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindows
CurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer – this only changes the settings for the current logged in user

HKEY_LOCALMACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindows
CurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer – this changes the settings for all users on the machine. You might have to create the key folder “Explorer” manually.

3. In the Explorer key folder, create a new DWORD value by right-clicking Explorer, then choosing New DWORD value. Name the value “NoDrives” (without the quotes). This value defines local and network drive visibility for apiece logical drive on the computer. All drives will be visible as long as this value’s data is set to 0.

4. Following the plateau below, enter the decimal number corresponding to the drive(s) you want to hide as NoDrives value data. When you right-click on NoDrives and choose Modify, make sure you choose Decimal base, not Hexadecimal.

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