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How to Hide or unhide hard drive in Windows Vista

aco — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:20:49 +0000

By default all hard drives in windows vista always show but you can hide some or all your hard drives so that nobody can open it or if you are parents and avoid remove or delete system file by your children, it is best for you that hide this hard drive (Generally C drive )
With this tip you can only hide drive but you can access your data and open drive with dos or typing drive name directly in The Address bar like c:\ and press enter.

Ok you can do this with two methods

First method: Through the Local Group Policy Editor (More Easy)
Follow these steps:
1. Click on the Start Menu.
2. In the Search bar, type gpedit.msc and press Enter
Or
Press Window Logo + R type gpedit.msc and press Enter.

3. Click Continue for the UAC prompt. (If you have active the UAC service)

4. (In the left pane) click on User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, and Windows Explorer.
5. (In the right pane) Double Click on Hide these specified drives in My Computer.
6. Click on Enabled Radio button and choose your drive which you want to hide then click on apply and ok.

7. If you have already hide drive one or all and this time you want to unhide choose
Don’t restrict all drives
Or
Click on not configured Radio button then apply and ok
And After this log off or restart your system.

You can also use this in Window xp

Note: First method is good for you if you want to hide C or D single drive or hide your all drive but if you want to hide other hard drive like E, F or G or you want to hide only F drive or G drive you don’t this Through the Local Group Policy Editor but you can do this with change registry setting.

Second method: Through the Registry (Easy)
Use this method when first method is not work for you:
1. Click on the Start Menu.
2. In the Search bar, type regedit and press Enter
Or
Press Window Logo + R type regedit and press Enter.
3. Click Continue for the UAC prompt. (If you have active the UAC service)
4. In regedit go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
5. In the right pane of Explorer, right click on an empty area and click on New and DWORD (32-bit) Value and type NoDrives (without any space) and press Enter.

6. Right click on NoDrives and click Modify.

7. Now you can use these value which drive you want to hide.

please choose value according to base if you choose Hexadecimal use hexadecimal value but if you want to choose Decimal value use Decimal value.

Drive Letter	Hexadecimal	Decimal
A	1	1
B	2	2
C	4	4
D	8	8
E	10	16
F	20	32
G	40	64
H	80	128
I	100	256
J	200	512
K	400	1024
L	800	2048
M	1000	4096
N	2000	8192
O	4000	16384
P	8000	32768
Q	10000	65536
R		131072
S		262144
T		524288
U		1048576
V		2097152
W		419304
X		8388608
Y		16777216
Z		33554432
ALL DRIVES		67108863

8. Close Regedit And Logoff and logon again, or restart the computer to apply changes.

To unhide drives –
In the right pane of Explorer, right click on NoDrives and click Delete and yes to confirm delete.
Close Regedit And Logoff and logon, or restart the computer to apply changes.

How to small or big desktop icon size in windows Vista

aco — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:49:05 +0000

Generally you can set only three sizes of icons –Large icons, Medium Icons, Classics Icons
Right click on Desktop > View > and choose icon size

But if you want choose more size of icons Go to Desktop, Hold down Ctrl key and use mouse Scroll
For Increase Icon Size – Ctrl + Scroll Up (Big size)
For Decrease Icon Size – Ctrl + Scroll Down (small Size)

If you want to set old icon size again, Right click on Desktop > View > and choose icon size> Medium Icons.

How to hide desktop icons in one second in Windows Vista

aco — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:50:29 +0000

Many people delete all icons on the desktop and after say hide and someone use some other way like right click(on the desktop) > personalize > change desktop icons(in right tasks pane) , and unselect all check box icons. But you can hide only system icons with this way.

The simplest way to hide all desktop icons in windows vista.

Right click on desktop > View > and after then unselect Show Desktop icons
Enjoy you can hide all desktop icons in one seconds. If you want to show icons again just follow same process and select show desktop icons.

How to Copy file name and path in windows vista

aco — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:28:45 +0000

When you trying to copy any file name in windows vista generally use-
1.Right click files and then click rename option
2.Select file , press F2 (function key)
After any one method, file name select and you can copy this name with Ctrl + C, and paste as your use. And it’s more hard when if you want to copy complete file path. But you can easily this all type work with Bullzip – copy file name utility.

Quick use
1.After downloading and installation bullzip-copy file name
2.Go to start >program >bullzip and click copy file name icon
3.Click tools > Register in File Explorer from the menu to enable the context menu.
4.And now you can use it , right click any file and click copy file name

Download free bullzip-copy file name , publisher page

Change XP drive icon into vista drive icon style

aco — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:27:42 +0000

Change windows XP drive icons into windows vista drive icons style, And change your windows XP style more stylish.

Quick use

1. install Vista Drive Icon.

2.open My computer, click Views and select thumbnails,tiles or list.

Operating System: All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP)

Get Vista Drive Icons free from here