Hide Drives For Your Privacy and Security By using registry without any software or application

Hide Drives For Your Privacy and Security By using registry without any software or application

Steps Involved :


1. open the registry to add key by clicking on to Start → Run, and typing in regedit. This will open the registry editor.

2. Now, navigate to the following registry hive as shown in the picture-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\

Policies\Explorer

3. Right-click on Explorer and choose New and then DWORD Value and name it NoDrives (it is case sensitive)

4.Now modify it’s value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) .

Now restart your computer. So, now when you click on My Computer, no drives will be shown(all gone…).

To Hide Only Specific drives..continue the steps further and leave step 4

5.double click on it to open the properties dialog box. Click on Decimal for the Base unit.

6.Type in one of the following values depending on that drive letter you want to hide.

Example:- if you want to hide drive D, just type in the value 8. You can also hide multiple drives by adding the numbers if the particular drives together such as – for hiding D and E, you would type 24 (i.e D + E => 8 + 16 = 24).