Title: Hiding driver(s) in My Computer
Question: How can I hide driver icons in "My Computer"?
Answer:
Here is a tip on how to hide drivers in "My Computer".
I hope this be usefull for someone.
To do this, you can use the following procedure and then please restart windows.
The "NoDrives" value included a 32 bit word and you can write
as decimal numbers.
A driver's value is twice value than preceding driver value.
These are A = 1 , B = 2 , C = 4 , D = 8 , E = 16 ....and others.
For example;
if you want to hide drive C and drive E, then you would add 4 and 16.
Result; 4 + 16 = 20 and Called like so ; HideDriver(20);
uses Registry;
procedure HideDriver(HideNumber: integer);
var Reg: TRegistry;
begin
Reg := TRegistry.Create;
try
with Reg do
begin
RootKey := HKEY_CURRENT_USER;
OpenKey('Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer', True);
WriteInteger('NoDrives', HideNumber);
CloseKey;
RootKey := HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE;
OpenKey('Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer', True);
WriteInteger('NoDrives', HideNumber);
CloseKey;
end;
finally
Reg.Free;
end;
end;
To visible drivers in "My Computer" then adding this code to the OnClick event of the button and then please restart windows.
var Reg: TRegistry;
begin
Reg := TRegistry.Create;
try
with Reg do
begin
RootKey := HKEY_CURRENT_USER;
OpenKey('Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer', True);
DeleteValue('NoDrives');
CloseKey;
RootKey := HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE;
OpenKey('Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer', True);
DeleteValue('NoDrives');
CloseKey;
end;
finally
Reg.Free;
end;
end;
Of cource,in fact, this solution don't exactly hide drivers but actual solution will be processed as soon as possible in this site.