Riding of the C$ share

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Mike Riston

In windows XP there is a default share which shares your entire HDD.

In earlier versions of windows, this was an extremely easy thing to fix. But
in winXP Pro I can not seem to rid of it

Any ideas of how to rid of my C$ share?
 
In windows XP there is a default share which shares your entire HDD.

In earlier versions of windows, this was an extremely easy thing to
fix. But in winXP Pro I can not seem to rid of it

Any ideas of how to rid of my C$ share?

Right click My Computer
Manage
Navigate to System Tools\Shared Folders\Shares
Right click on C$
select Stop Sharing
 
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; disable the administrative shares (C$)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\param
eters]
"AutoShareWks"=dword:00000000
 
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