Hide hidden drives now working?

[GreenLantern22]

Hi,

I am happy converted XY user. I

Now to my issue. I got one of those 8-in-1 USB flash card reader connected to Windows 7 Pro PC. As it has 8 slots it creates 8 drives in Windows. I don't usually use more than 1 of them so I like to hide the other 7. In my previous XP installation I used Microsoft's PowerToys to hide them, but PowerToys is not supported in Windows 7 so I Google'd around and found this hack:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows- ... ows-vista/

This worked fine for Windows Explorer but they still show up in XY. Obviously I don't use that piece of junk anymore so I want to hide them in XY too. I looked in the configuration and found a setting called "show hidden drives". This option is unchecked but again I can still see the drives. Any ideas what's going on? I couldn't find anything relevant in this forum either.

[admin]

There's a key in registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoDrives (XP SP3, don't know if it's the same in other Windows). If the drives are hidden here, XYplorer should hide them too. I don't know of any other official way to hide drives.

This is a binary value:
Hide A: = 1
Hide B: = 2
Hide C: = 4
Hide D: = 8
etc.

[GreenLantern22]

Hi,

If you look at the link I posted you will see that the hack is using that same registry key you mentioned. I have done it, rebooted the machine and the drives are gone from Windows Explorer but not from XY hence the post.

[GreenLantern22]

OK, I found one interesting thing. When I start XY the drives are showing up. If I do Ctrl-Shift-F4 to rebuild the tree the drives dissapear. But if close and reopen XY the drives comes back, any ideas?

[admin]

Hi,

If you look at the link I posted you will see that the hack is using that same registry key you mentioned. I have done it, rebooted the machine and the drives are gone from Windows Explorer but not from XY hence the post.

Sorry, I really should click those links sometimes...

[admin]

OK, I found one interesting thing. When I start XY the drives are showing up. If I do Ctrl-Shift-F4 to rebuild the tree the drives dissapear. But if close and reopen XY the drives comes back, any ideas?

Works alright here. Are you maybe using the MiniTree?

[admin]

Maybe this is a solution. Quoting from your link:

Use HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE for all users.
You cannot set HKEY_CURRENT_USER policy in a non-admin user account (because otherwise non-admin users could revoke the restrictions placed on them by network admins).