Hiding the Drive from others

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With a simple technique you can hide a drive from other. Just be sure
that before hiding the drive, there should not be any files in use
else you would not be able to hide the drive.
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This advice seems unfactual. The (file or folder) "Hidden" means
files or folders will not be displayed to normal commands. It
does not disable their function (Registry/Hive etc.)
 
As "Don Phillipson" says, what you say is not strictly true.

In WinXP, there are two different ways of making a drive inaccessible.

The first is to hide the drives and is the same as in WIn9x, this is
controlled with the registry key :

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoDrives"=hex:00,00,00,08

....and can be set using the [free] Microsoft TweakUI.exe utility.

But this first method only *hides* the drive in Windows Explorer (and
"browse" for files and folders) but all files and folders on it are still
accessible.

The second method is to actually make a drive inaccessible to a user - this
is only available on NT-based systems. This *would* stop any files on the
drive from being accessed and is controlled by the reg-value :

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoViewOnDrive"=dword:00000008

This setting (and the other) can be set using the 3rd-party application
FreshUI.exe

(the actual numerical values quoted refer to drive d:)

Download the small TweakUI installation file from the link below :
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

Download the FreshUI Installation file from :
http://www.freshdevices.com/uifile.html

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
 
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