Disabling Display of Drives in My Computer

This is yet another trick you can play on your geek friend. 

1.Disable

To Disable Drives in a computer 

 go to : Run -> Type Regedit->Enter (hit enter) and  go to 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Now in the right pane create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives. Now modify it's value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) Now press F5 to refresh. When you click on My Computer, no drives will be shown. 

2.Enable

To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete this DWORD item. It's .reg file is as follows:

goto Run->type regedit->Enter

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

"NoDrives"=dword:03ffffff